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Systemic Racism in NSW Schools

Systemic Racism in NSW Schools

Gladys Berejiklian is generally regarded as one of Australia’s more sensible politicians. Apart from a notable lack of judgement in turning a studiously blind eye to a former boyfriend’s corrupt land dealings, the NSW premier mostly seems to live up to her image: a bit boring, but competent

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If You Can’t Count, You’ll Always Fail at Maths

If You Can’t Count, You’ll Always Fail at Maths

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember sitting in class, robotically reciting the times tables. You’re probably hearing the sing-song in your head, right now: “One times two is two, two times two is four…” It was dull, repetitious – and absolutely foundational. You can probably almost

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Why Do Academics Love Terrorists So Much?

Why Do Academics Love Terrorists So Much?

Notorious Australian criminal and raconteur Mark “Chopper” Read once commented to a journalist that “Posh people love gangsters”. People who live safe, cosseted lives seem to yearn for what gay slang once dubbed “rough trade”. Academics are definitely posh people. A US academic with a PhD averages more than twice

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Maori Children Are Failing in Education So Let’s All Learn Te Reo!

Maori Children Are Failing in Education So Let’s All Learn Te Reo!

Another hare-brained idea from a government full of them! Education has failed predominantly Maori and Pasifika children for over a decade so what does this government do? They abolish charter schools – which were producing great results – and unveil their solution: moving toward te Reo becoming mandatory. In 1996 school attendance

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Barking Bureaucratic Madness on Stilts

It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Australia’s education bureaucrats must be barking mad. For the past few decades, Australia’s international education rankings have steadily fallen. In line with demands by education bureaucrats and teachers’

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Institutional Racism and Bigotry in the Classroom

Institutional Racism and Bigotry in the Classroom

“In the language of Orthanc, help means ruin, and saving means slaying” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. This short speech shows that Tolkien was as clear-eyed as Orwell about the nature of totalitarianism. Saruman the wizard, as Tom Shippey has pointed out, is very much a

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Here’s How You Can Beat Leftism in the Classroom before It’s Too Late

Here’s How You Can Beat Leftism in the Classroom before It’s Too Late

Anna Agresti PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Anna Agresti is a college freshman and an Academy Fellow in the Young Leaders Program at  The Heritage Foundation . heritage.org Leftist indoctrination may be a dominant force in the classroom, but winning hearts and minds is often easier than most conservative

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Canadian Students Dump Anti-Semitic BDS

Canadian Students Dump Anti-Semitic BDS

Let’s not kid ourselves: the BDS movement is anti-Semitism. Many of its adherents might protest otherwise, some of them no doubt actually believe it, a small number are surely well-intentioned, but the fact remains: BDS is anti-Semitic. Its founders are outspoken in their hatred of Jews. Its aim is

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UK Teacher’s Union Invents New “Transphobia” Definition

UK Teacher’s Union Invents New “Transphobia” Definition

As education standards in Australia continue to decline by world standards, teachers’ unions invariably use it as an opportunity to demand even more money than ever – despite the fact that Australia has been investing more and more money and getting worse and worse results for over a decade. On the

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Free Thought Is Dying in Darkness

Free Thought Is Dying in Darkness

400 years after Galileo, a new curtain of darkness is being drawn over the Enlightenment. Scientists and thinkers dare not publish heretical texts, for fear that their careers and even their lives may be summarily destroyed by a superstitious mob and an Inquisitorial establishment. While they may not throw heretics

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Labour Wrong to Limit Where Kids Can Go to School

Labour Wrong to Limit Where Kids Can Go to School

Proposed changes to the Education and Training Act 2020 are part of an ongoing attack on school choice by Labour, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Labour is hell-bent on a one-size-fits-all approach to our education system.” The Government is proposing to deprioritise children and siblings of former students

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