Thousands of New Zealand students are not enrolled in school and close to a thousand have been absent from school for more than a year. Youth worker Brendon Crompton said the number didn’t line up with the reality of what he was seeing. “Around 1000 children is too low.
As I’ve recently reported, American school childrens’ basic literacy and numeracy scores have slid dramatically over the past decade. That trend has only been exacerbated by Covid policies such as school closures. Other policies such as mass-mask mandates have been shockingly detrimental to the learning abilities of the very
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants www.innovativeeducation.co.nz www.innovativeeducation.co.nz/generation-skip People have finally realised that our education system is turning into a real mess. There is NO WAY that can be blamed on Covid. It is, of course, the children who can least afford to miss
For the first time in 10 years, Creative NZ declined a funding proposal for $31,000 to go towards an annual School Shakespeare festival. It was defunded for the following reasons: the Creative NZ board raised worries the festival “did not demonstrate the relevance to the contemporary art context of
Thomas Sowell famously wrote that a growing problem with the US education system “isn’t that Johnny can’t read”. The real problem, Sowell said, is that Johnny can’t think, because “Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.” As we see, American students have
Sloan Rachmuth mercatornet.com Sloan Rachmuth is a conservative journalist, education activist, and mom of two. She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard, with PhD work in media psychology. Sloan is a micro-targeting, messaging, and behavior modification specialist. Sloan is a contributor at the Federalist, The National Pulse, The American
David Pomeroy Sara Tolbert Kay-Lee Jones University of Canterbury Becky Taylor UCL Christine Rubie-Davies University of Auckland David is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Canterbury Faculty of Education, and a former secondary mathematics teacher. Sarah Tolbert is currently the Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real
The dunces of the class are screaming about the need to get rid of streaming. No, they aren’t talking about a war on Netflix, Neon, HBO, Disney or Amazon Prime, they are talking about the streaming of classes. When Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis was a principal, he got
The Flynn Effect is the observation that IQ scores have risen with successive generations. But that doesn’t mean the children of today are necessarily any smarter than children 100 years ago. In fact, there’s plenty to indicate otherwise. For instance, peruse school reading lists. Required reading texts have
Alwyn Poole 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 for Years 1
familyfirst.org.nz Further to the story of a controversial and extreme sex-ed handout being given to pupils aged 11-13, the teacher responsible has kept her job. What’s of most concern is that the sex-ed document had been viewed by the school’s Head of Department prior to it
With some supporters/backers I am interested in helping to establish a new school in beautiful Warkworth for 2023. Key features would be: * High quality, academically focussed teaching and great facilities. * 15 children for Y7, Y8, Y9, and Y10 – making a total of 60. * Applying the model, day structure and
With some supporters/backers I am interested in helping to establish a new school in beautiful Warkworth for 2023. Key features would be: * High quality, academically focussed teaching and great facilities. * 15 children for Y7, Y8, Y9, and Y10 – making a total of 60. * Applying the model, day structure and
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Below is Stuart Smith’s response. When parents send their children to school in New Zealand, they expect them to be in a safe and encouraging environment, where they can develop, learn and ultimately reach their potential. Stuff recently revealed that a rapist was hired
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future… history is continuously rewritten. This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage.” – George Orwell, 1984 The necessity to
