Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. Earlier this year, Harvard professor Carole Hooven found herself in hot water. An expert in evolutionary biology and the author of the recent book, Testosterone, she criticised the use of phrases like “pregnant people” in a media interview. Wrong,
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins and National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith on Wednesday released National’s education plan to get school students back on track and make up for lost class time. National’s ‘Back on Track’ plan calls for the immediate reopening of schools to give students
Alwyn Poole Things have been trending very badly in our education system for the last twenty years. Through an increasingly simplistic and low bar NCEA system we have been able to pretend that progress is being made. However, the gaps between low decile, Maori and Pasifika students as compared to
Paul Heyward University of Auckland Paul Heyward’s Research areas include: How teachers make ethically challenging decisions, The ethical nature of teaching, Teacher professionalism, The place of a Code of Ethics/Conduct in the lives of professionals, Drama as a pedagogical approach in tertiary education settings, Critical reflection, Gender dynamics
Chris Sweeney rt.com Chris Sweeney is an author and columnist who has written for newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, The Sun and the Daily Record, along with several international-selling magazines. Critical Race Theory being taught in American schools has angered many parents. But for one mother,
Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor. Kerry has a B.A.
Whatever your political leanings, there can be little dispute that Condoleeza Rice is one formidable person: concert pianist, academic, politician and diplomat. Rice is nobody’s fool. Nor is she about to accept that, solely by virtue of her skin colour, that she is anyone’s “victim”. Naturally, Rice is
NZTSOS Inc. New Zealand is on the edge of a major educational crisis come the 16th November. Newly formed NZTSOS Inc., a large group of pro-choice education professionals will be taking legal action against the Mandatory Vaccination Order in the High Court tomorrow, 10 am, Monday 8th November 2021.
This week’s round of elections in the US can only be described as the first ripples of a red wave. While the big focus has — with good reason — been on the Virginia gubernatorial race, results across the country ought to spark panic among Democrats. The mid-term elections, next
It’s bad enough when Bruce Pascoe fabricates a phony-baloney “Aboriginal history” — but his alleged fabrications about himself may be even worse. Let’s not beat around the bush: Dark Emu is garbage. It makes Chariots of the Gods look like rigorous scholarship by comparison. Its fanciful tales of
How’s this for an own goal? Imagine being a professor whose entire career is based on a single premise — and then blowing that premise out of the water with a single tweet. Ibram X. Kendi, known to his mum and dad as “Ibram Henry Rogers”, is one of the
Perhaps nothing exemplifies the bureaucratic lunacy crushing Australians in the name of “covid rules” than the case of Nikolai Petrovsky. Professor Petrovsky is one of Australia’s most respected vaccinologists. He has led the development of an Australian-made covid vaccine: a vaccine currently in phase 3 trials and ready
Joshua Mawhorter fee.org Joshua Mawhorter has been a junior high and high school teacher for the past five years in the subjects of Government/Economics and U.S. History. Until recently, I was a California teacher working in two charter schools, one as a full-time classroom teacher of
Barack Obama is the epitome of the modern “liberal”: a sneering, privileged elitist, forever heaping disdain on the working-classes. When Hillary Clinton effectively destroyed her presidential hopes by deriding ordinary Americans as “deplorables”, she was merely echoing her former boss. In 2008, Obama jeered at rust-belt, working-class
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
