POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Year 11-12
data interpretation premature
Tas
Govt media release,
31 May 2010
Drawing firm conclusions from TQA
data is premature as students have had only one implementation year of
the new model...
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Grades slip in school reform
The Mercury,
31 May 2010
THE performance of year 12 students
has fallen significantly, leaked figures show...
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
Student absenteeism rising
The Mercury, 29 May 2010
SCHOOL performance figures have
revealed an alarming long-term decline in attendance across Tasmanian
high schools...
CURRICULUM TOPICS
What's new 28 May
Curriculum Leadership, 28 May 2010
- ACARA consultation
- My School data collection
- History curriculum concern
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
The little schools that can
The Mercury, 28 May 2010
SMALL and rural schools have topped
the list of high-performing Tasmanian schools this year...
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Thorp denies reform rollback
The Mercury, 28
May 2010
EDUCATION Minister Lin Thorp has
denied telling teachers Tasmania Tomorrow was a failure and would be
canned...
LOTE
Our feeble attempts at foreign languages
Andrew Bolt, Sun-Herald opinion, 28 May 2010
For many students, it seems those
years of forced study have been largely wasted, and wasted most with
Asian languages...
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
School
Improvement Reports a vital resource
Tas Govt media release, 27 May 2010
School improvement reports released
today will allow parents and the wider community to track achievement
and improvement in Government schools since 2007...
See School
Improvement Reports for individual Tasmanian schools
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
Teachers in school violence front line
ABC Online, 27 May 2010
Tasmanian students who commit minor
offences at school could now be punished and counselled by teachers...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Education minister denies Tas Tomorrow a failure
ABC Online, 27 May 2010
The Tasmanian Education Minister is
at odds with unionists over comments she made to teachers about the
troubled post-Year 10 school system...
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Schools reform 'failure'
The Examiner, 27 May 2010
THE controversial Tasmania Tomorrow
reforms had failed, Education Minister Lin Thorp told teachers at
meetings last week...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Training and consultation deficiencies slammed
The Australian, 25 May 2010
THE lead writer on the national
history curriculum has criticised the development of the school course
as an unwieldy and frustrating process, with four groups of experts
making changes without consulting one another...
TEACHER EVALUATION
Teachers get no incentive to improve
The Australian, 24 May 2010
GOOD teachers are not recognised
and rewarded while poor teachers are not penalised because methods to
evaluate their performance at school are meaningless and ineffective...
See
Grattan Institute page
See the
report [PDF 6MB]
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Fed-up Polytechnic chief quits
The Mercury, 20 May 2010
THE outgoing chairman of the
Tasmanian Polytechnic has launched an extraordinary attack on
"self-interested" critics...
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Premier stands by Tas Tomorrow
ABC Online,
19 May 2010
The Premier, David Bartlett, says
the resignation of the Polytechnic's chairman does not signal that the
Tasmania Tomorrow policy is in trouble...
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Polytechnic
Chair resigns
Tas Govt media release,
19 May 2010
The Minister for Education and
Skills, Lin Thorp, today thanked Dr Michael Vertigan for his hard work
in overseeing the implementation of the Tasmanian Polytechnic of
Tasmania’s post-year 10 reforms...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Best for struggling students to be absent
The Australian,
14 May 2010
THE NAPLAN tests contain a perverse
incentive for students to be absent from school that day, with their
performance not counted in a school's results, while students who are
officially exempted are reported as failing...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Claims of cheating on NAPLAN tests
ABC Online,
12 May 2010
The State School Teachers Union in
Western Australia has called for an inquiry to claims that some schools
are cheating on national literacy and numeracy tests to boost their
ranking...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Underperforming students 'exempt' from NAPLAN tests
ABC Online,
11 May 2010
Some parents of underperforming
students have been told to keep their children home from school over the
next three days of NAPLAN testing...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
NAPLAN denies kids an education revolution
Kevin Donnelly, ABC Online,
10 May 2010
While previously arguing in favour
of tests like NAPLAN, I have changed my mind about the validity and
value of standardised testing...
INTERNET
Furore as schools asked to chip in for portal
The
Age,
10 May 2010
VIC: The state government has been
accused of hiding cost blowouts in its $77 million Ultranet - an online
network that will give parents round-the-clock access to their
children's lessons, homework, results and attendance ...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Study 'defeats NAPLAN tests' purpose'
The
Australian,
10 May 2010
EDUCATION experts have accused
teachers of defeating the purpose of the diagnostic examinations by
helping students to prepare for them...
LITERACY
You wouldn't read about it
The
Age,
9 May 2010
Investing in literacy skills pays
off...
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Greens reaffirm rollback of reforms
The Examiner,
8 May 2010
THE Greens have reiterated a
commitment to roll back Tasmania Tomorrow, after ducking criticism they
were softening their stance on the controversial reforms...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
NAPLAN
testing to go ahead
Tas Govt media release,
6 May 2010
The Minister for Education and
Skills, Lin Thorp, said today that the interests of parents, schools and
the community have been recognised by the AEU’s decision to lift its
moratorium on NAPLAN testing in Tasmanian schools...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Teachers back down on NAPLAN boycott
The Australian,
6 May 2010
TEACHERS have dropped their plans
to boycott next week's national literacy and numeracy testing in
schools...
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Bartlett school reforms vow
The Mercury,
6 May 2010
PREMIER David Bartlett has admitted
to mistakes in the rollout of Tasmania Tomorrow but refuses to
voluntarily abandon the revamps...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Expert worried NAPLAN tests may oust teachers
ABC, 5 May 2010
An internationally recognised
researcher from Wagga Wagga says the Federal Government's use of
numeracy and literacy data could prompt more teachers to leave the
profession...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Top schools join teacher ban on NAPLAN tests
ABC, 3 May 2010
NSW: Selective high schools,
including some of the state's top performers, will join other Sydney
schools in supporting the teacher ban on NAPLAN tests next week...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Teachers on notice over union-ordered test ban
ABC, 3 May 2010
THE federal industrial umpire
yesterday ordered teachers in Victoria to abandon the union-ordered
boycott of next week's national literacy and numeracy tests...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Teachers told to defy Industrial Commission
ABC, 3 May 2010
Tasmania's education union is
confident members will heed its call to defy an Industrial Commission
order and boycott national tests, despite the threat of fines...
POST-YEAR 10 CHANGES
Education showdown for new hung Parliament
ABC, 3 May 2010
The Tasmanian Opposition is looking
to the Greens to support laws to roll back the Tasmania Tomorrow system
for year 11 and 12 students...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Teachers' union to fight Industrial Commission ruling
ABC, 2 May 2010
Tasmanian teachers are resisting
pressure to drop a planned boycott of national literacy and numeracy
testing...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
National survey ranks our best classrooms
The Australian,
1 May 2010
Elite schools in NSW and Victoria
dominate a list of the nation's top 100 schools in a table based on
reading and numeracy results from the 2009 NAPLAN results...
On the honour roll, 1 May
2010
Bright-spark students flock to big city lights,
1 May 2010
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