Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
Their Minister doesn't believe in heritage so why would they waste time having a policy about it?
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Rob Coup,
it would be several 1000 times easier
Exactly - and NZTA and Treasury really don't have the same accountability relationship as MinEd and school boards do. Hoping someone might be aware of an article somewhere examining the reasoning/implications of the delegation.
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Rob Coup,
I guess MoE didn't provide aggregated data because they don't actually have it
But they've already asked each school to provide the data to them, so surely it's all there in one place even if they haven't 'aggregated' it?
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Has anyone written about the Ministry forwarding the OIA request to boards of trustees instead of answering it themselves?
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Hard News: The question of Afghanistan…, in reply to Richard Aston,
all agreeing it was time to get NZ out of Afghanistan like now
Surpising unanimity really - and they all seemed to have a good grasp of the topic too. Native Affairs does a cracking job for all of us.
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
If I'm a parent and I have a perfect, accurate and fair understanding of the data, then that is going to lead me to send my (average ability, no special needs, well parented) offspring to the school with the best results.
Only if the data in itself tells you anything meaningful about which schools do well at adding educational value to your child and others.
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to John Holley,
Isn't there some analysis from the Chch longitudinal population study that similarly finds the overwhelming influence on student results is parental wealth?
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Rob Coup,
+1 to those suggestions.
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Field Theory: Never alone with Metenolone, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ta. I have seen that one on telly somewhere. Great edits.
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Hard News: And so it begins, in reply to Bart Janssen,
how do you suggest schools (those who care) make their protest against this use of this data?
politically (including engaging with parents and others) as they did so successfully over classroom sizes.