Posts by Sacha
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Oh and some light relief from another as a rejoinder to "If all the economists were laid end to end they would never reach a conclusion":
“If all the economists were laid…”
A bit improbable, perhaps, but I suspect that the world would be a much better place.
more convergence..
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Nice summary by one of Danyl's commenters, Sammy:
Minister talks crap. Blogs tear apart the crap. Media faithfully report the crap. Crap wins.
Key/English are smart enough to know their target audience isn’t.
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A manufacturer of pads tells me that their new design is responsible for all the success we're hearing about. I guess I'd better pass that on.
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no or little time at the crease usually is a bad thing
but you'd need to be some kind of advanced cricketing expert to know that
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Hood points to cricketing success
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where people repeat the same arguments I've already addressed
Danyl, I asked about a concrete example. Explain away.
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No doubt Russell will pick this up as a new thread. Government response to Special Education Review seems to be: improve from 50% to 80% inclusion with only the already announced extra investment in boosting ORRS coverage. Can't see any links to the actual report yet.
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However. I have never in my life had a conversation with a female friend in which we compared the sizes of various men's genitalia. You guys care way more than we do.
Opposite of my experience, not that it's necessarily any more repesentative than others.
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But how would you know unless you have a good discussion with your friends
We're not women
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if you wish to ascertain which schools may be under or over-performing in relation to the composition of their student population
(emphasis mine). Are the standards as proposed going to be moderated for the socio-economic status of students' families? I recall large-scale educational research from Christchurch some years back establishing that as the only salient factor.
If they're over-performing, it may be useful to know how it came about and if those methods can be replicated elsewhere.
A professional community of continuous improvement would be great, yes. Publishing unmoderated rankings of schools or teachers seems likely to work against that.
I'd hope it was already one function of ERO and other sector bodies - which as some have noted are not necessarily shared by the educational systems of other countries like the US whose policies this government are slavishly applying.