Quick link: “value-adding” for assessing teachers
In the discussion of the obviously silly results from MySchool a few months ago, mention was made of a Grattan Institute report advocating the use of “value-added” measures. In a nutshell, value-added measures attempt to measure the progress (as measured [...]
Gillard taking questions from educators, citizens, children
We’re seeing an interesting tactic from the Prime Minister – opening herself up to questioning on policy from those actually working in the area, and tonight, on Q&A, to anyone. (And I hope that the Q&A audience is more representative [...]
Teacher bashing round #176838
Sheesh, election years can be depressing some times. If it’s not having the green lycra clad form of Action Man Abbott on the tv screen for 9 days in a row, or craven policy reversals on brown people in boats, [...]
What's up with Rudd?
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey email:
The Australian Education Union writes to Federal Labor MPs about MySchool
…and here’s the text of the letter.
The Women's Weekly and politicians
Over at Gatewatching, Jason Wilson references Andrew Elder’s very good question about the Australian Women’s Weekly being a graveyard for politicians, and asks another good one – given the magazine’s truly huge readership, were Tony Abbott’s comments ill advised? The [...]
Myschool demography FAIL
According to Julia’s press release, the MySchool website is supposed to tell whether your local school is working well: My School contains important information about each of Australia’s 10 000 schools including the number of students at the school, the [...]
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