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Twitter, 1; teachers, 0 | *headdesk*

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March 25, 2009. Twitter, 1; teachers, 0. Yet another) primary curriculum shakeup. The report is due next month, but unsurprisingly, a draft found its way to The Guardian. Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian has learned. However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.

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Conversation | *headdesk*

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March 23, 2009. An article on the BBC website. Describes the frustration parents have in trying to goad their kids into sharing information about school. A few observations:. 2 Further to point 1, as the government actively works to disinvolve parents in the upbringing of their kids, we can all expect more of the same. 4 “Only 16% of children volunteered information about their day at school.”. Laquo; Friends in strange places. Tuesday links.fo’ reals. When my eldest was at primary school I took her back...

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Nobody wants your stinkin’ Sats | *headdesk*

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March 27, 2009. Nobody wants your stinkin’ Sats. That head teachers and teachers in England are threatening to boycott next year’s national Sats tests in primary school. The National Association of Head Teachers and the NUT teaching union say the tests taken by seven and 11-year-olds damage children and schools. They want assessments by teachers instead, and an end to league tables based on the 11-year-olds’ results. What is the government’s enlightened response? Laquo; Twitter, 1; teachers, 0. Email (Ad...

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Is there no limit to my cynicism? | *headdesk*

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March 20, 2009. Is there no limit to my cynicism? US First Lady Michelle Obama is set to break the ground for an organic garden on a patch of the south lawn to grow produce for the White House kitchen. Local primary school pupils will help her with the planting and harvesting of the vegetables, herbs and salad crops. Laquo; Remember that study. Friends in strange places. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Life not imitating art.

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Hiatus | *headdesk*

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May 2, 2009. Laquo; Life not imitating art. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email (Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Life not imitating art. Your Right to Know.

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Friends in strange places | *headdesk*

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March 23, 2009. Friends in strange places. It sorta hacks me off to find myself agreeing with the Tories. So much these days:. Conservative justice spokeswoman Eleanor Laing said: “The government must urgently adopt a principled, proportionate, less centralised approach to collecting personal information that takes real account of our privacy and is based on the consent of individuals and families.”. But, then, the Lib Dems too:. It seems a bit strange to have to dive to the left or. On March 25, 2009.

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Public Education | *headdesk*

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March 30, 2009. I am a huge supporter of a library-style non-compulsive education model, as I’ve said many times. This would require the government to relinquish nearly all resources and funding to communities. If individual families are going to have a say in the provision in their area, doesn’t that sort of imply the necessity of what is in essence a voucher system? So, depending on who you ask, voucher supporters are not necessarily upper middle-class folks who would be content to leave poor kids to t...

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Life not imitating art | *headdesk*

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April 2, 2009. Life not imitating art. Yesterday I posted an article in which educators were said to be whinging about the effects of television on children. Today’s article gives an example of how life isn’t resembling television in the slightest, even though it might benefit from doing so. From the Human Rights Watch site. So…it’s not like that CSI show after all? I would agree that perhaps the blue lighting and porno music and sunglasses for the guys in Miami are a bit much, but certainly I would have...

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D’oh | *headdesk*

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April 2, 2009. Teachers blame sketch show. And ‘Big Brother’ for rudeness and excessive swearing in the classroom. Television executives are to be urged by schoolteachers to tone down the language and behaviour shown in programmes because pupils are copying what they see and hear in the classroom. Either lighten up or lay down the law, but leave my trashy TV alone, thanks. Laquo; Public Education. Life not imitating art. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Life not imitating art. Action ...

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Est January 8th 2000. Educational Heretics Press Books. But all this is now changing, there is a quiet revolution underway as ever more parents find that in an information and resource rich society it is possible to provide a suitable, flexible and enriching education tailored to their child's individual needs and aptitudes from a home base in a way that schools could not dream of providing, should that ever have been state's intention. And our very own Roland Meighan. I am Mike Fortune-Wood. On home edu...