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By Mark Bahnisch on August 2, 2010
Julia Gillard has just been on ABC News 24, saying she’s tearing up the script, and will henceforth campaign in a manner that eschews scripted lines. This is the “Let Julia Be Julia” strategy, which will be familiar to the [...]
Posted in Education, federal election 2010, Markets | Tagged ALP, authenticity, campaign, Julia Gillard, Labor, let julia be julia, neo-liberalism, New Labour, Per Capita, principal power, quasi-markets, school autonomy, school education, teachers unions, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on April 12, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged Arkansas, asylum seekers, Bill Clinton, Julia Gillard, labor party, myschool, NAPLAN, national tests, New Labour, parents, school education, strikebreakers, teachers unions, Tony Abbott, triangulation, unions, wedge politics |
By Kim on October 5, 2008
A bit of a shoutout to all the teachers out there on the intertubes – we love youse all! Today is World Teachers’ Day. I’m sure there are very few of us who don’t remember teachers who made significant differences [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged ALP, education policy, education revolution, judith brett, Julia Gillard, Labor, performance pay, Rudd government, school education, schools policy, teachers, teachers unions, teaching, World Teachers' Day |
By Kim on September 3, 2008
Although the AEU has been dismissed as one of the dreaded teachers’ unions by Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, some others have actually been looking at the evidence in the evidence-free policy of the Kevin Rudd “education revolution” narrative. And [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged AEU, ALP, Chris Bonnor, education research, education revolution, evidence based policy, Jim McMorrow, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, league tables, National Press Club address, political narrative, private schools, public schools, Rudd government, school education, school funding, schooling, schools transparency, teacher bashing, teacher quality, teachers unions, transparent school information |
By Paul Norton on August 29, 2008
The MSM is full of reports and commentaries praising Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard for taking on the teacher unions with their proposals for “a new national system of school transparency” based on publication of information and ranking of the [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Education, International | Tagged AEU, ALP, education research, education revolution, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, league tables, National Press Club address, OECD, political narrative, Rudd government, school education, schooling, teacher quality, teachers unions |
By Kim on August 28, 2008
Kevin Rudd’s address to the National Press Club yesterday (you can read it here) was notable as much for what he didn’t say as for what he did. I’d be very surprised indeed if the expectation that he would spell [...]
Posted in Education, Media, Politics | Tagged AEU, ALP, Bill Clinton, education revolution, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, league tables, media narrative, narrative, national press club, National Press Club address, performance pay, political narrative, schooling, teachers unions |
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