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School reform - about time.

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It is interesting watching the direction in which Australian education is going. It seems that the American model is the template presently in favour. The following article is from 2008 and warned that they weren't all they seemed.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dont-mimic-us-school-model-experts/2008/11/24/1227491462460.html
The final paragraph is interesting.

Also an article on former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, Diane Ravitch and her u-turn criticising "the "No Child Left Behind" act in American education.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124209100
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 7 January 2011 10:43:33 PM
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School reform......what a joke! Still moms and dads are paying for all school products that should be payed by the Governments....but that order would of came from the Howard World.

Why are the tax payers forced to pay for Pens,paper,rulers,fee,s,books and these are state ruined/runned schools? The truth is...the upper leveled workings people don't want your children mixing with that they call....the righteous ones.

Struggeling tax/payers are bleeding at the gills for what should be for free to all Australians....and if not...you PIGS tell me why?

And its a fair country.....lol.....Australia!......What a crock of you know what.

BLUE
Posted by Deep-Blue, Friday, 7 January 2011 11:44:59 PM
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Sorry..lol...just had to sneak this one in, and oh the irony:)

http://tinyurl.com/2d2yx67

No! Its all fair..lol

BLUE
Posted by Deep-Blue, Saturday, 8 January 2011 1:00:56 AM
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Another one that shows where we are going here in Australia:
http://www.truth-out.org/cathie-black-and-demise-public-education66427
Posted by The Blue Cross, Sunday, 9 January 2011 11:14:52 PM
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And now for something completely different...here are a couple of articles on Finland's education system.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/09/28/national/national_30113177.php

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8601207.stm
Posted by Poirot, Monday, 10 January 2011 2:22:44 AM
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Poirot, good ones. I've seen them before, and they made me cry when I thought of how wilfully stupid our state-territory and Commonwealth education ministers are.

The truth is, as those US articles I posted say, that 'education' is just another industry to be mined for profits.

Education, if it were delivered to the masses, would upset the status quo, so instead we get child-minding and coercion.
Posted by The Blue Cross, Monday, 10 January 2011 9:57:00 AM
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