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What happens in schools.(Letter to the editor)
SIR: While Patrick Morgan identifies some deficiencies in education, he does not produce an accurate account of what actually happens in schools ("Education Made Easy", January-February 2007). Nor can the incessant criticisms of the Australian be given much credence. I write as a teacher with thirty-three years' experience, who has seen fads come and go, and the latest fad is not postmodernism--it's the school as the small business competing with other small businesses under the leadership of an entrepreneurial principal.
No school I have taught in has disregarded grammar, replaced literature with Neighbours, failed to conduct examinations, put self-esteem ahead of standards, refused to grade students, or banned students from failing.
It is true that the last Victorian Liberal government officially introduced outcomes-based education, abandoned history and geography to the mess of SOSE (Studies of Society and Environment), introduced "beginning", "consolidating" and "established" on school reports, used retrospective legislation to tear up a formerly legally binding contract with the teaching profession on teaching and learning conditions, de-professionalised teaching and unleashed a torrent of meaningless ...
- BRACKS LABOR GOVERNMENT RE-ELECTED IN VICTORIA.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News November 27, 2006 700+ words
...Nov 27 Asia Pulse - The Bracks Labor government's decisive...Victoria for the next eight years. The Liberal opposition...over a period of four years," he told reporters...retain office in next year's state election...think it is a four-year challenge," he said...
- Victoria: July to December 2006.(Political Chronicles)
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Economou, Nick June 1, 2007 700+ words
...Victorian system brought about by the Bracks Labor government's reform of the constitution...For all of these problems, the Bracks Labor government was comfortably returned...of the provision of fixed four-year terms for the Victorian parliament...
- Victoria: January to June 2005.(Political Chronicles)
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Economou, Nick December 1, 2005 700+ words
...surpluses on the other, the Bracks Labor Government began 2005 in urgent...electorate. In the beginning of the year the government was accused...left over from the previous year and apparently contributing...youthfulness (he was thirty-two years at the time of his appointment...
- MOODY'S UPGRADES VICTORIA'S DOMESTIC-CURRENCY BONDS TO AAA.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 8, 2000 700+ words
...Service assessing the direction of the new Bracks Labor government and finding the state "in...superannuation liabilities over the past five years. Victoria's ability to generate underlying surpluses year after year, excluding asset sales, "lends strong...
- AUSTRALIAN STATE AWARDS US$210 MLN RAIL CONTRACT TO BOMBARDIER.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News November 22, 2001 700+ words
...through the sale of development and other rights along the rail corridors. The project was a key pre-election promise by the Bracks Labor Government and vital in securing regional votes. But a National Party-commissioned report released this week said the...
- Bracks to the future.(Steve Bracks Premier of Victoria)
- Magazine article from: Business Asia COOPER, CAMERON June 1, 2000 700+ words
...the man he so surprisingly beat in last year's Victorian elections, Jeff Kennett...shadow. A stunning by-election win to Bracks' Labor Party in the "safe" Liberal seat of...of a return to more modest growth this year. The managing director of Access, Ed...
- BRIEFING - ASIA ECONOMIC NEWS - FEB 8, 2000.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 8, 2000 700+ words
...corporations in the Philippines last year. This can be gleaned from the...had a quiet start to the new year after a bumper Christmas season...assessing the direction of the new Bracks Labor government and finding the state...PHILIPPINES INFLATION DROPS TO 12-YEAR Y-O-Y LOW OF 2.6% IN...
- The totalitarian effect of anti-free speech legislation.(LEGAL NOTES)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs Spry, I.C.F. September 22, 2005 700+ words
...Ministries Inc. Judge Higgins, who came from the controversial plaintiffs' firm Slater & Gordon, was appointed by the Bracks Labor Party government, which enacted the relevant legislation at the instance of the Jewish and Muslim lobbies. The defendants...
