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Just Make Sure Your Kids Can Read

Just Make Sure Your Kids Can Read

When he isn’t shilling for the divisive, dangerous “Voice” referendum, Noel Pearson occasionally has some decent ideas. The “Voice” will make not a jot of practical difference to the deplorable state of Aboriginal Australian women and children, while fundamentally dividing the country on racial lines. But there are some

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Mass School Super Reintroduces Gay Smut to Libraries

Matt Philbin newsbusters.org Managing Editor for MRC Culture Well, meet Peter Schafer, superintendent and chief groomer of Abington, Massachusetts, Public Schools. (Oh, we’re not supposed to say “groomer?” How about “sexualizer?” “Perversion facilitator?” I know: “smut contextualizer.”) Schafer is all about context. That’s why he read the

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This Govt’s True Legacy

Graham Adams commonroomnz.com Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. This column was first published at The Common Room, commonroomnz.com Even if Chris Hipkins is no longer the Prime Minister after October’s election, his legacy will be locked

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There’s More than One Way to Burn a Book

There’s More than One Way to Burn a Book

If you want to know what the left are really up to, just listen to whatever they’re accusing anyone else of the loudest. Violent extremism? Look at any random left-wing mass rally, especially involving Antifa or BLM (whose months of riots remain the costliest civil unrest in US history)

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The Truth about NZ Truancy

Alwyn Poole innovativeeducation.co.nz alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected

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Chuck It in the Bin Where It Belongs

Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com I’ve just read a book entitled New Zealand’s History Curriculum: Education or Indoctrination? It makes it clear that Goebbels would have been proud of the new curriculum! When the Government decided that New Zealand school children should learn something of our history, I was

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Is America Becoming Like North Korea?

Is America Becoming Like North Korea?

Jeff Charles libertynation.com Socio-political correspondent at LibertyNation.com. A self-confessed news and political junkie, Jeff’s writing has been featured in NewsweekOpinion, and Red State. He hosts A Fresh Perspective podcast and has appeared as a guest on Fox News, Fox Soul and The Hill’s Rising. When he

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Education: Where Are the Kids?

Alwyn Poole www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.alwynpoole.substack.com/ The Minister of Education (Hipkins) who drove attendance in NZ off the cliff was planning to make a big ANNOUNCEMENT this week on how to cure the disease he has significant responsibility for causing. The announcement has been delayed. From

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ChatGPT Could Change Higher Education for the Better

Peter Jacobsen mercatornet.com Peter Jacobsen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ottawa University and the Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University, and obtained his BS from Southeast Missouri State University. His research interest

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Maxient: A Social Credit System in the Land of the Free

Maxient: A Social Credit System in the Land of the Free

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young

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An Open Letter to the PM

Professor Elizabeth Rata bassettbrashandhide.com Dear Prime Minister Hipkins, We, the undersigned, draw your attention to two major problems in the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum Refresh policy and in the associated NCEA qualification reforms. These problems were created during your tenure as Minister of Education and can only be

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Can We Fix the Education of Boys?

Can We Fix the Education of Boys?

Alwyn Poole www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.alwynpoole.substack.com/ As I am preparing for the privilege of being on the education panel and 2023 NZ Economics Forum, I still shake my head at where we have got to. With regards to boys’ education, three graphs are telling. Keep in

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The Ivy League Doesn’t Want Asians

It’s an article of faith among the left that the West, especially the United States, is “institutionally racist”. This is almost a complete lie, of course: name one law or official policy that is actively racist. High rates of black incarceration don’t count: the laws are the same

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A Warped View of the World

Michael Cook * Full disclosure: the author is a member of Opus Dei. mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Four Corners, a flagship program on Australia’s ABC, broadcast a scathing attack on two private schools in Sydney on Monday evening. Their crime:

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Major Publishers Won’t Let ChatGPT Be Listed as an Author

Major Publishers Won’t Let ChatGPT Be Listed as an Author

Danny Kingsley Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science Australian National University Unless you’ve spent your summer on a digital detox, you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT: the latest AI chatbot taking the world by storm. Recent discussion about ChatGPT has focused on the risk

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New Boss Worse than the Old Boss

New Boss Worse than the Old Boss

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz The cabinet reshuffle was predictable. Hipkins is, so far, our very worst Minister of Education. He has appointed someone who may well be worse: Jan Tinetti. Hipkins says: “As a former school principal and education expert new education minister is uniquely placed

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