Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com Alwyn Poole Founded and was the Principal of Mt Hobson Middle School and the Villa NCEA Academy in Newmarket, Auckland for the first 18 years. One of my pet hates is the nonsense spoken by government politicians, of any persuasion, when they tell the people,
Clayton Fox brownstone.org Clayton Fox was a 2020 Tablet Magazine Fellow. He has been published at Tablet, Real Clear Investigations, Los Angeles Magazine, and JancisRobinson.com. Looming over my city of Evanston, Illinois is Northwestern University, home of the Wildcats, alma mater of David Schwimmer, Kathryn Hahn, and real
Ray Bradbury’s dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451 envisions a world where books are routinely burned (the title refers to the ignition temperature of paper). But, as Bradbury himself said, “There is more than one way to burn a book”. Why bother burning books, when you can just ban them, strike
Laura Rosen Cohen brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, The Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a
Mt Hobson Academy Alwyn Poole Firstly let me say – this is a wonderful project and I am loving the work. I am fully available during the holiday period for families and potential staff. Please don’t hesitate if there is anything that you need to know. Contact alwyn.poole@gmail.
David Haggith rt.com David Haggith is an author published by Putnam and HarperCollins. He is the publisher of The Great Recession Blog and writes for over 50 economic news websites. The University of Northampton, an institution which appears to have suffered an irony bypass, slapped a trigger warning on
“Progressive” schooling loves to make a virtue of “critical thinking”, but that doesn’t mean they actually teach it. Actual critical thinking involves rational, sceptical, and unbiased analysis of facts. The whole point of critical thinking is to overcome our innate biases and, in Richard Feynman’s words, to learn
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The ACT Party today welcomes the New Zealand History curriculum being delayed a year, we just hope it means there’ll be a significant rewrite. The draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly
Waitakere College along with other schools as they claim, are now declaring that unvaxxed children will not be allowed to play sports. Below is a copy of the letter sent out by the head soccer coach at Waitakere College to parents. BFD. College sport announcementDownload Let’s highlight the racism
Mt Hobson Academy Alwyn Poole Firstly let me say – this is a wonderful project and I am loving the work. I am fully available during the holiday period for families and potential staff. Please don’t hesitate if there is anything that you need to know. Contact alwyn.poole@gmail.
Isaac Morehouse fee.org Isaac Morehouse is the CEO of Crash and Founder of Praxis. He is a member of the FEE Faculty Network. He blogs at IsaacMorehouse.com. Universities are dying. They have long ceased being the best way to gain knowledge. More recently, the degrees they confer have
Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high-quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years, children who have been through our Mt Hobson
Outspoken psychologist and author Jordan Peterson is a man of principle living in a world where morality is no longer fashionable – if it ever was. Peterson disagrees with the direction academia has taken the social sciences. He recognises that if he does not train his university students, undergraduates and graduates
Graham Adams There is a lot of funding and influence riding on successfully casting indigenous knowledge as equal to science. Graham Adams says the debate over the NCEA science syllabus is only the tip of an iceberg. Anyone trying to get a grip on the matauranga Maori debate over the
Mt Hobson Academy Alwyn Poole Firstly let me say – this is a wonderful project and I am loving the work. I am fully available during the holiday period for families and potential staff. Please don’t hesitate if there is anything that you need to know. Contact alwyn.poole@gmail.
Some time ago, I read a “listicle”-type article on “movie villains who were right all along”. My science lecturer at university likewise pointed out that the “villain” from 2012, White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, was also right at several key points of the plot. Similarly, watching Peter
