Education
The Nationwide Online School That Is Thriving
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Open Letter to Iona Holsted, Secretary for Education: Part Two
Alwyn Poole Dear Iona This is the second in a series of three letters that I have considered important to write to you in your role as Secretary for Education. As previously stated, it is an incredibly important position. (The third will delve deeply into 2021 results). I got an
This Is the Best Time in History to Grow Up
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz Brain science, genuine learning theory, understanding of needed family dynamics and the ability to accurately fund education have all come together to create the most remarkable potential for young people in the history of humanity. This is the best time in history
It’s Not Your Money If You’re Unvaxxed
As the classic 80s ad catchphrase went, “It’s your money, Ralph!” Ah, the Victorian State Bank… if only they’d made investment decisions as well as they made ads… there might still be a Victorian State Bank. The collapse of the Victorian State Bank was just one of the
From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale
Disclosure: Male, Pale and Stale has a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), concerning Supply and Demand Theory as applied to Education – it has never helped him to get a job, but he is aware of how the industry operates On March 2nd 2022, in the NZ Herald, Chloe Swarbrick published
Most Academics Went Silent. Why?
Vinay Prasad brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author
Open Letter to Iona Holsted – Secretary for Education
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants Dear Iona Many readers will not have name recognition for you in your role as Secretary for Education in NZ. I have noted that until last year all emails coming out from your officials had the footer: We shape an education system that delivers equitable
Punished for Being Poor — And White and Male
As Bettina Arndt and Christina Hoff-Summers are pointing out — to the screeching fury of triggered feminist frightbats everywhere — the education is systematically failing boys. Read that sentence properly: it’s the system which is failing boys. Boys might be failing schools in ever-increasing numbers, but that’s because they’re
A Child’s Life in a World on Mute
Megan Mansell brownstone.org Megan Mansell is a former district education director over special populations integration, serving students who are profoundly disabled, immunocompromised, undocumented, autistic, and behaviorally challenged; she also has a background in hazardous environs PPE applications. Many among us weren’t our top notch picture-perfect version of ourselves
“Talent” Is Not the Measure of Success
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
Abuse in Schools: Media Look Away
Mainstream media reporting on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, especially from the ABC, focussed almost exclusively on the damning accusations against churches. This was not unmerited — but the one-eyed hyper-focus of the media left the bigger picture entirely obscured. There is no doubt that not
How Boys Are Being Punished at School
Anyone who’s been to school in the last 50 years will be familiar with it: Girls can do anything! Boys… well, boys can just learn to shut up and sit still. Since 1972, under the Whitlam government, Australian schools have relentlessly pursued strategies to encourage girls’ achievement in schools.
NZ Teachers Are Looking for a Win in High Court This Week
NZTSOS New Zealand Teachers Speaking out with Science Buoyed by the significant ruling of Justice Francis Cooke in favour of the police and Defence Force on Friday, education staff from across the country are expecting a positive result for their case against Minister of Covid-19 Response, the Director-General of Health
NZ Teachers Take Their Case to the High Court
NZTSOS Inc. New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated NZTSOS Inc. (New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated) will take their case against the Minister of Covid-19 Response, the Director-General of Health and the Attorney-General to the High Court in Wellington over the next week (Thursday 3rd, Friday