Today’s revelation by the Government that there are 17 schools where fewer than 20 per cent of students are attending school regularly is just another illustration of the magnitude of New Zealand’s attendance crisis, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. Four schools have fewer than 10 per
Dunedin Mum New Zealand schools will be introducing “Aotearoa New Zealand Histories” in 2022 to all schools and kura across the country. Be sure to get the name right. It’s Aotearoa New Zealand Histories, not New Zealand history. The “Aotearoa” part is important, as is “histories”, not “history”. As
In a time of universal deceit, as Orwell said, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Well folks, we indeed live in a time of near-universal deceit. Not least that the people who pose as revolutionaries are really the Establishment – and the one thing they really hate is people who
It’s official, now: everything is racist. We’re not just talking about actors inadvertently referring to “coloured people” or crime figures that show that black Americans overwhelmingly dominate crime statistics. Oh, no: nothing escapes the stain of “racism” any more. Maths, music, statues, Abraham Lincoln, chess, golf, craft beer,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
