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Failure is Essential
One of a few interesting posts over the last week from Dr Tim Ball: Support and even reward of failure by the current US administration is the culmination of a pattern begun several years ago under the guise of progress. It generally began in the school system when students were not allowed to fail, and worse, …
What Happened at Dallas Primary School?
Dallas Primary School in Broadmeadow, Victoria, went from well below national standards in the 2008 NAPLAN test to well above in 2010. How? Former education department bureaucrat John Nelson said the Dallas results were ”gobsmacking”. Despite a large migrant population and low socio-economic status, year 3 students were reading, spelling and understanding grammar and punctuation at …
Are There Apprentiships or Trainieships for Peopel in Your Inderstry?
A couple of weeks ago a Year Twelve student from the local school gave me a questionaire on employment in the IT industry. That was one of the questions. Most of the others had similar errors. I have two questions of my own. 1. Does the school check questionnaires, letters, etc before they go to members of the …
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