Hard News: Research Fail
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Sofie, I agree. The response has been very muted. I'm surprised too...
Anne Tolley is having the repoprt re-written in bright crayon font 45.
Once she has read it out loud, the opposition will get a feel of how seriously the giovernment is taking the report...
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'There is something quite demeaning about a government which talks in the argot of photocopier salesmen'
I so want this on a t shirt I may have to steal it.
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Paul, if success is the only option, as any Double-Plus-Good-Duckspeaker knows, success is then assured.
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How does that work? Will they be putting on a mini van to transport the kids to the other school? Or will the kids have to coordinate public transport (if, indeed, their school is serviced by public transport).
I wonder if they'll include art and PE in with the other subjects kids are assessed for. I can just see hordes of skinny geeks being bussed to South Auckland for their daily dose of "real rugby training". It'll be like the end of that sex education skit in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
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That's funny - there's no mention of this story on Stuff? - http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/more_headlines
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It's still there, just listed under "Politics", not "Education".
Fitting, really.
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Doesn't the Swedish system also have a demographic balance policy in place which makes compulsory busing look like a picnic? If so, that's one fact the voucherisation supporters won't mention.
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Intentionally or not, this rosy view carefully avoids the realities outlined in a Guardian story last week:
By "realities outlined" you mean the lobbying undertaken by the state schools of Sweden (Director General - Per Thulberg) for a bigger budget.
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But it gets worse:
Over that worsening period of degradation in Swedish educational achievement about 90% of pupils were taught in Swedish state shools.
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What is a step-change when it's at home?
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...the giovernment...
OMG! it's all too late then,
he's taken over everything! -
By "realities outlined" you mean the lobbying undertaken by the state schools of Sweden (Director General - Per Thulberg) for a bigger budget.
No, actually.
Thulberg is director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, which oversees policy and research for the whole system, including the independent schools, which are part of that system.
Most recently, it produced this report, What influences Educational Achievement in Swedish Schools?
If you bother to read it, you'll see it is not the work of a lobby or interest group. Its approach to the growth of independent schools is quite measured. It concludes, cautiously, that the school-choice reforms have contributed to segregation between schools and, in particular, a shift in school populations such that middle-class populations have concentrated in some schools, and the less wealthy and immigrants in others.
This shift has coincided with a fall in performance of the whole system. It is absolutely a fact that Swedish standards have fallen against Sweden's neighbours and the world.
From the introduction:
International studies of educational attainment, since the middle of 1990s, have indicated a decline in performance by Swedish compulsory school pupils (Skolverket, 2009a). Declining results are most notable in mathematics and natural science, but are also apparent, though to a lesser degree, in reading comprehension. This raises the question as to how to explain these declining performance levels. How might Swedish compulsory schools have changed since the beginning of the 1990s? Can these observed changes be explained through research about those various factors that might have an impact on educational attainment?
So it would seem Thulberg is eminently qualified to comment on outcomes since 1990.
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What is a step-change when it's at home?
It used to answer to "quantum leap", in the days of an earlier strain of copier-salesmanese.
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...the giovernment...
OMG! it's all too late then,
he's taken over everything!Cue ethnic stereotype... It'll never last...
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Cue ethnic stereotype... It'll never last...
>:(
I for one welcome our well-meaning ethnic stereotype overlords.
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a step-change
Into something rich and strange.Well, it's strange and for the rich, so...
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Have a listen to Roy trying to explain this on national radio last night
I can almost hear mary wilson say "education broker what the fuck is that!?"
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Step right up folks, step right up...
What is a step-change when it's at home?
in some school's it's a pest
and in others it means pets
optimists see it gainfully as et ps
pessimists bleakly see EST & Pfor some a step-change
is a quantum move up
and for others a flight of fancyand when the game's afoot
it can be the difference between
choreography and coprolalia
and the social swerve from
hang on a minuet mate
to FoxTrotskyism -
Heather Roy at the end of the RNZ piece.
"In some cases schools that are doing the best, have less money [given] to them."
Sounds like tax funding of Independant schools to me.
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An education broker makes education broken.
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;See: rich and strange but useless.
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"education broker what the fuck is that!?"
The new paradigm...
if it ain't brokered
don't fix it...You can lead a horse to water, dept...
Horses eat Swedes don't they? -
3410,
Have a listen to Roy trying to explain this on national radio last night
That was scary.
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Have a listen to Roy trying to explain this on national radio last night
That was scary.
Nah. The weirdest explanation evar was John Key this week explaining Whanau Ora as being "a bit like a waterbed".
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"In some cases schools that are doing the best, have less money [given] to them."
Sounds like tax funding of Independant schools to me.
What do you think?Or an argument against the decile funding system.
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How are they identifying the top 5%? Are they taking the ones who do best in the standardised tests (which is going to miss a lot of girted kids) or are they using some other form of assessment (which is going to be expensive and time consuming)? What will they do with kids who are gifted in one area and struggling in another? What about the many kids who are "twice exceptional" ie those who are gifted and have a learning disability?
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