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
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
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
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
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
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
NZQA’s assessment that the University Entrance pass rates for 2020 would have ‘fallen off a cliff’ without free credits shows the huge impact lockdown disruption is having on learning, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Every time we go into lockdown our children are missing out on vital
The most insidious path ever set down in this country during this writer’s lifetime is about to be walked, the steps taking us (further) along the track to totalitarianism and racial separatism. It’s chilling, it’s evil manifest, so why aren’t we talking about it? And, more
The NZ Herald reports that hundreds of children living on rural roads near towns are being barred from school buses under a law that hasn’t changed since 1904. On Inland Road near Helensville two Kaipara College students live 3.8 kilometres from the school but the bus is only
Right to Life News righttolife.org.uk Almost a quarter of pro-life students have been “threatened, abused, alarmed or distressed” for being pro-life at university, according to new poll. According to polling by the national student pro-life group, the Alliance of Pro-Life Students (APS), over 71.
Ever since ditching the execrable Malcolm Turnbull, the Coalition under Scott Morrison has steadily been turning a paler shade of the deep teal it had become. Although reviled by the left-media as a deep-blue conservative, Morrison is steadily flushing greener as he endlessly panders to the shrill left
