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Progressive Educators May Day Message to Trade Union Colleagues

We call upon all trade union colleagues to stand behind the Australian Education Union as it faces the challenges of the next few weeks.  The AEU has a national moratorium on NAPLAN tests.   The moratorium will stay in place until Julia Gillard agrees to prevent third parties from using the NAPLAN data to create school league tables.    more...


Rational responses to High-Stakes testing and the Special Case of Narrowing the Curriculum

David Berliner is Regents' Professor of Education at Arizona State University. He recently wrote a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald titled The view from America: what on earth are you thinking? in which he challenged Julia Dullard's commitment to the failed Teach for America model of recruiting the "best and brightest" to the cause of raising li    more...


School closures questioned in South Australia

The following are the opening paragraphs from an article by AEU Vice-President Anne Crawford,  reproduced from the Save Our Schools website.  To read the full article follow this link: http://soscanberra.com/school-closures/school-closures-questioned-in-south-australia   Schools and preschools in South Australia are currently    more...


So who would barrack for Obama?

The following article is from the US website Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org/ ).  It shows how US President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan are pursuing regressive educational policies similar to those of George W. Bush.  Both support charter schools (privatised public schools that are kept on the public     more...


Bush Snr official now critical of neo-liberal education

Diane Ravitch was a part of George Bush Snr’s education team.  She has since reconsidered some of her opinions and has emerged as a credible voice of opposition to NCLB, charter schools, and Obama’s “reforms”.  A worthwhile read: http://learningmatters.tv/blog/op-ed/privatization-will-not-help-us-achieve-our-goals    more...
 

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