Tram Town
Saturday, November 19, 2005
| Category: Ejacashun Slatts has pointed out that the Bangkok Post has this to say: IF you were thinking of sending your child to an Australian school, think again. Teachers addled by New Age nonsense about “outcomes-based education” have sent standards plunging and schools have been captured by trendy ideologues more interested in remaking society than teaching reading, writing and arithmetic.Even BugMeNot is failing me for access to the original but apparently the article was based on a report by Kevin Donnelly. Kevin's book Why Our Schools Are Failing is available online for free in PDF format. [ Jack, if your computer doesn't display the chapters correctly give us a hoi and I'll send the eldest over to make it work. It's well worth a look if only for the final chapter with some explanations of edubabble. ] |
