Proposals for NCEA science risk taking our curriculum down a rabbit hole at a time when the Government should be focused on turning around our declining achievement in science, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. The proposals divide science into ‘matauranga putaiao’ (Maori understanding of the natural world) and
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Exclusion is the title of module 6 of the Unteach Racism app which the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand in conjunction with the Human Rights Commission with typical bureaucratic efficiency has spent a number of years developing. If you wish to review the earlier
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The Government’s newly-announced Curriculum Advisory Group boasts that it ‘represents the interests of all parts of the education system,’ but they forgot the rest of society. The Group has all sorts of people who work in education, but it doesn’t have anyone education
Robert Bridge strategic-culture.org Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. There’s a war on for the hearts and minds of children across the U.S. and the battlefield has become the very schools that millions of Americans are required to send their kids for a state-run education.
More than any other prime minister, Robert Menzies was responsible for putting Australia on the higher education map. Under Menzies, Australia’s universities tripled, and enrolments skyrocketed. True to Menzies’ word that “a university education is not, and certainly should not be, the perquisite of a privileged few,” and “finance
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The ACT Party is calling on teachers and Ministry of Education staff who feel uncomfortable being forced into Critical Race Theory training to reject it. ACT revealed yesterday that more than half of Education Ministry staff have been through a course called ‘Courageous Conversations about
David Seymour ACT Leader It is entirely inappropriate that the people who set the policy for our schools are undertaking courses that teach them “guilt and shame” are natural responses to so-called “white privilege.” After ACT revealed school kids were being taught about “white privilege”, we can now reveal that
July 20th, 2021. In 1966 6% of young people went to university but by 2018 this had reached 50.2%. Tony Blair achieved this as one of his policies. With the long march of socialism through the universities and higher education, this means that the young are now being trained
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First NZ A new poll released on Monday by Family First NZ has sent a clear message to the Government – don’t politicise schools, and keep critical race theory out of the classroom. In the independent poll of 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed by Curia
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Today we continue our overview of the Unteach Racism app put together by the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand in conjunction with the Human Rights Commission – you know that wonderful organisation that so strongly believes in the rights of humans that it gives a
Critical Race Theory is the most venal racist nonsense to plague the Western world since Nazi “Racial Hygiene” theories. No one in their right mind could defend such hateful, racist garbage. Naturally, then, its spruikers lie through their teeth about it. One of the biggest lies peddled by CRT enablers
Alwyn Poole Villa Education Trust Innovative Education Consultants In the last 10 days, I have had the privilege of working alongside two amazing groups of people. 1. Mike King and team – working with us in Russell, Bay of Islands, being involved in three events and doing an incredible job bringing
Alwyn Poole Villa Education Trust Innovative Education Consultants For Karen and our Trust and staff, our passion has always been for working with kids who have barriers to otherwise succeeding in school. In 2002 we took a model to the Ministry of Education for a Middle School that had all
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
Australian tv host Andrew Denton once said that, if he had to give his kids just one book that would teach them all he wanted to know, it would be To Kill a Mockingbird. The book has long been a mainstay of set high school English texts, with good reason.
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A few years ago, when I was visiting friends in Colorado, my host suggested going for a walk in the foothills of the Rockies. I readily agreed. We
