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Wendy Harmer: “I’ll never pay to send my kids to school”
Comments (0) · 30 January 2011 · permalink
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10 ways politicians are retouching education
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10 ways politicians are retouching education
Lots of pi
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Categories: Education, Education - Mathematics,
Lots of pi
NSW DET and Windows 7
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Categories: Digital Education Revolution, Education, Education - Computing, Education - Technology,
Essentially a Microsoft promo video on the NSW DET deploying Windows 7.
National literacy and numeracy tests ‘not reliable’
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Melbourne University associate professor Margaret Wu argues that the test results are too imprecise to be used as proposed by the federal government – to compare schools and identify those struggling to improve student performance.
“These are numbers. We can’t allege any school or teacher is not working based on these numbers. We don’t have the confidence these numbers show that these teachers haven’t worked hard enough because of student performance.”
The Digital Education Revolution in NSW
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Are you interested in what is happening with the Digital Education Revolution in NSW? The DET has released a public web-site with lots of information like the machine specs and software. Also check out the slightly kitschy video: