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Peter Garrett: encouraging signs (a Kiwi perspective)

By Kelvin Smythe - posted Monday, 27 August 2012


No 'statistically significant improvement', but that doesn't take into account the harmful effects national testing has on the reading, writing, and numeracy being tested; the wider curriculum, especially the opportunities for imaginative and flexible thinking; the professionalism of teachers … and the benefits that would have accrued for indigenous and non-indigenous children if that $750 million had been spent differently.

And I want to say Peter Garrett that the non-indigenous children would have been the most harmed – the opportunity of recovery for them is all that more difficult. Shame on you.

Peter Garrett you have done badly, and you know. With ideological corruption, as Orwell explained, comes language corruption – your media release is execrable.

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Kelvin Smythe was a New Zealand primary school teacher, principal, university lecturer, and senior inspector of schools.
He has written various publications and articles on social studies promoting the idea of the ‘feeling for’ approach to social studies.

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