Rhetoric vs reality II
At some point, the rainbow coloured glasses will slip and people will wake up to the fact that the National Government doesn’t practice what it preaches. In fact, is consistently doing the complete...
View ArticleDear Virginia
Letter to Virginia Larson Journalist and Editor North and South I’m feeling pretty disappointed with you having just picked up the October North and South magazine from my local dairy and seen your...
View ArticleMore irrational cuts to education – What was Tolley thinking… or was she...
The Manukau Family Literacy Programme (known to many as the COMET Programme) have been pursuing an answer regarding funding for quite some time and have recently found out – they won’t be getting the...
View ArticleTolley has another shocker
Again I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry but it became clear in the house today that Anne Tolley had either not read, not understood or could not remember the briefing paper she received when she...
View ArticleGive professional learning a chance
When Minister of Education, I launched a Literacy strategy. In 2004 we started doing extra training for primary and intermediate teachers. By the November 2008 briefing for the incoming Minister 44% of...
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World Literacy Day
I had a great time at lunchtime participating in a giant scrabble game in Cuba Mall in Wellington. Lots of members of the public joined in, though I am not sure that all the words ” in the scrabble...
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