If our brightest young people are finding it increasingly difficult to read – as we are hearing from tutors in top universities – is our heritage going to continue to be studied, critiqued and transmitted to future generations. If not, how are future generations going to be able to build new things?
If this is the level of knowledge and aspirational thinking of a member of the PPTA executive, then it is no wonder the ministry is offering them only one per cent per year increase for the next three years.
I could send my son to school – but he would not be learning te Reo as a language. He would be learning te Ao. I do not consent.
We medicate children rather than transforming homes. This essay explores how parenting, trauma, and emotional maturity are the roots of New Zealand’s education failures.
Politicians, psychiatrists, and public schools are the last places to trust to safeguard mental health. Young Americans are already suffering from a downward politico-psychological spiral thanks to decades of abusive, repressive policies.
Stanford might be better than Hipkins and Tinetti, but that is a VERY low bar.
It’s difficult not to wonder just how much harm this Millennial parenting might be doing.
Even with record-high per-student spending, the broken status quo has left one in five Americans functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.
FSU staff will now provide training at the school on best practice guidance on freedom of speech in an educational setting.
Australia will get a register to track educators and CCTV trial in centres, but these latest proposals don’t address the root causes of problems in the early childhood. Instead they work within the boundaries of what we already have.
Wealth is clearly an advantageous aspect for many of the top performing schools but there are others, including having faith/purpose based foundations.
It’s time universities take Columbia’s lead and act like it.
More predators uncovered in schools and childcare centres.
