Education
Now Look What We Made the Left Do!
Despite the Philistine chest-thumping of the CodeBros and “IFL Science” types, the Humanities are essential to saving Western culture. Or, at least, they should be. The problem is that the Humanities have been subjected to a decades-long assault by the Long March left. To the point that Humanities faculties today
Collins’ Comments: Trans-Tasman Bubble Win
Hon Judith Collins judithcollins.national.org.nz It is great to know that many people in Australia and New Zealand are going to be free of the travel restrictions of the past year by mid-April. I know that many of you supported my petition to the government to have the
Education and New Zealand’s Future
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Nothing matters more for the future of New Zealand than educating our children. As part of the globalised world we have contributed towards the common good and wasted opportunities in about equal measure. Unless we now retreat to the small, isolated South Sea islands that the
‘White Supremacy’ or White and Supremely Great?
Call me a reactionary, but the contemporary leftist obsession with “racial justice” seems an awful lot like a Revolution of the Envious Losers. Dispute it as they will, the modern world was largely built by the brains and sweat of white, Christian, male Westerners. The left, of course, will cherry-pick
New Census Data Show Homeschooling Tripled during the Pandemic—and One Key Group Is Driving the Surge
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. in
School Forces Boys to Apologise for Their Gender
Once upon a time, children were sent to school to learn to read, write and master maths. Not any more. While parents still view the purpose of schooling as basic education, teachers and academics think they know better. Nowadays, children spend more time at school learning about 57 imaginary genders
New Figures Show New Zealand’s Attendance Crisis
Newly released attendance data National has been calling for for months shows an alarming number of students don’t attend school regularly, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “We can’t improve student achievement if the kids are not at school. “In term one of 2020 only 50.5
Rutgers University Will Require COVID Vaccine to Attend in-Person Classes Starting in August
Sundance theconservativetreehouse.com Keep in mind the vaccines are not FDA approved yet; instead all the vaccines are being administered under a federal Emergency Use Authorization (EAU). Essentially what Rutgers is forcing upon their students is a mandatory policy for a vaccine that is not FDA approved. However, faculty and
Labour Votes against Law to Notify Schools of Sex Offenders
Labour has failed to ease the minds of parents across the country as it voted down a law change that would have required the Department of Corrections to notify schools of sex offenders placed in their communities, MP for Waimakariri Matt Doocey says. “Too many times we have heard Corrections
Has a Gap in Old-School Handwriting and Spelling Tuition Contributed to NZ’s Declining Literacy Scores?
Christine Braid Massey University I have worked at Massey university since 1997 in the area of teacher education, post graduate literacy, and in literacy professional development for trained teachers. I completed a PhD titled The influence of teacher knowledge and teaching practice on outcomes for beginning readers. I was part
Government Hiding Our Student Attendance Crisis
The only way we can fix New Zealand’s appalling school attendance levels is by first knowing the full extent of the problem, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. The Ministry of Education told the Education and Workforce Select Committee that schools were submitting attendance data for all four
Two Georgetown Academics Have Been Cancelled Because of a Zoom Call
Noah Carl rt.com Noah Carl, an independent researcher based in the UK. In 2019, he was fired from St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, after a campaign by student and academic activists. Follow him on Twitter @NoahCarl90 A law professor was fired after she was seen remarking on the low
I Wonder If the Government Planned to Feed Parents Too?
The government launched their ill-conceived school lunches programme and it already appears to have unintended consequences. We received this email on our tipline yesterday: Hey there get a load of this, my primary age daughter tells me the wastage of the taxpayer-funded free lunch at her school is high so
Prominent Harvard Professor Pilloried for Peddling Revisionist History about Wartime ‘Comfort Women’
Nevin Thompson globalvoices.org Nevin Thompson is Japan Editor and Social Media Manager for Global Voices. He is a translator, writer, and journalist, and has been connected to Japan for more than twenty years. With the social media team, Nevin also provides marketing management support for Global Voices. A noted
The Grim Rise of ‘Hate Studies’
Robert Weissberg mercatornet.com Robert Weissberg is a professor emeritus of political science at The University of Illinois-Urbana. The toxic ideas that have corrupted today’s universities all began as tiny, obscure musings before escaping from the laboratories. They may have started with an unpublished paper or two, a request