Category: Links
Serious article in Sun Herald – must be an accident!
This clipping is from the March 4 issue of The Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition. To subscribe for $4.50 a week, visit http://smh.com.au/digitaledition. Arabella works hard to reach top Means test selective parents Web...
Article: Use Facebook While Studying, Get Lower Grades
Use Facebook While Studying, Get Lower Grades http://mashable.com/2012/02/29/facebook-homework-lower-grades-study/ (Sent from Flipboard)
Ross Gittins on the Quality Teaching debate
An erudite contribution to the debate from Ross Gittins, as normal. I heard him last week refer to himself as a frustrated teacher, and he certainly has a deep and ongoing sympathy with the...
Article: The great NBN fail
Need to read this again! Long analysis coming out in favour. The great NBN fail http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/02/21/3435975.htm (Sent from Flipboard)
Herald editorial on Gonski
I guess all school leaders have become cynical over the past ten years. The shenanigans of the various Teachers Federations during the period have been more than unedifying, and the unwillingness of the elite...
The big obsession: which school?
No time to comment on this one, but worth going back to for more thoughts. > This clipping is from the February 18 issue of The Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition. To subscribe for...
Is there ever a good divorce?
Sometimes you can’t choose – just like the kids! > This clipping is from the February 18 issue of The Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition. To subscribe for $4.50 a week, visit http://smh.com.au/digitaledition. >...
The Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition: Labor likely to dither on education proposals
Why are we not surprised? Any decline in the funding for the non–Gov sector will be poison in key electorates if it hits either of two key groups: the Catholic parents and “Howard’s Aspirationals”....
Refugees and the Telegraph’s “freebies”
Yesterday, I dropped Paula at school soon after 7 am and, while I waited for Bethlehem’s Opening Mass and her installation/coronation/assumption, wandered down to Ashfield to grab a latte (large, skim, of course). Waiting...