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10 ways politicians are retouching education

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 Australian

Of course they do. The school I teach at will receive $200,000 which is being spent to reduce the size of our maintenance list. So, the spending will include carpet, painting, fixing blinds, and my favourite, fixing vinyl tiles in corridors.

A mistake gives schools an extra holiday. This is the sort of mistake I’d give bonus marks too.

F minus: official ad gets back-to-school date wrong [SMH]

I had a slushie, a green one, at school today – it was good.