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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Politics
Anyway, he's got the UK's parents and the UK government thinking, and acting on those thoughts. Brilliant.
Now, to do the same thing for school websites and ICT use. We need to ensure that more and more kids come out of school thinking that computers are their friends.
We need more and more knowledge workers.
We need teachers, parents and government to think and act on the ICT revolution.
What if they raise the legal age for buying cigarettes to 18 this year, 19 next year, 20 the year after... And so on. Thus, it would stop those under 18 now from ever being legally able to buy them. Come the time they're 65, still they're unable the buy fags legally. Heh!
And, police should arrest, or spot fine those under the legal smoking age, caught smoking. I started smoking to look 'ard and be more grown up, and attract the girls. If I was caught, fined and belittled by the police and made to look not grown up at all, I'd not have taken up the evil addition.
Kick butt. Kick butt. Kick butt.
The new Education Secretary is popular with the AUT, he gave them a bigger pay increase... "Commenting on Mr Johnson’s appointment, AUT general secretary, Sally Hunt, said:
“Alan Johnson is a hugely respected MP and minister and, of course,
a former trade union leader. The current pay dispute is at a critical
stage and we are very fortunate that the man who told the truth about
universities’ commitment to staff pay is back in education."
If you need more background on the man... eGov has it.
Crazy.
Did you get your first or fith choice? Will your child be going to the school down the road or one 16 miles away? Will you sell a kidney to send them private or settle for the sink school?
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Socialist Worker: "Teacher training cuts and 'independent state schools.'" And some info on the 2 March rally and demo for a "comprehensive future."
The Voice: Ruth Kelly lays out her plans with reference to black children.
Explaining the moves, Ms Kelly said: "There is the odd case, albeit rare, where a school stays in special measures for four, five or even six years. And that just can't be right, because it might be the entire length of a pupil's secondary education.
"So what we are saying is 'you have got to focus urgently on what the problem with the school is'... and if there hasn't been significant progress after a year, then the local authority and the school ought to consider a more radical option."
Head teachers will be given new powers in a government white paper to wrest control back from local education authorities so he can push through the plans.
Blair has become frustrated at the way in which plans for a network of 200 academies have become bogged down by the "intransigence" of local authorities. The new legislation is expected to drive through the creation of the national network in the face of resistance from councils.
...they are being used as a political tool.
... tests were having a detrimental effect by "labelling" children at an early age.
...my job is to make them have a love of lifelong learning. If they get level four at key stage two and feel really bad about themselves I don't think I have done a good job.
My daughter will be starting these next year, her brother's 2 years younger. I'd hope that they'd do quite well at these, She seems to have done well last year. Gaining 31 gold stars, she was third in this measure. This has given her enormous confidence. Were she to have come third from the bottom, I'm sure this would have been catastrophic. One of the boys who didn't achieve and was at the bottom, is a fairly smart boy. His dad's nice but isn't so driven. I blame the parents ;-) However, that shouldn't impinge on their child's education.
Wouldn't it be marvellous, if somehow this almost genetic predisposition could be adjusted? It has to be done early on— ingraining the joy of learning and of achieving. I don't believe SATS are for the benefit of poorly performing kids. IMHO there's a window up to the age of 11 where family history can be turned about.
As ever, complex is expensive, faulty and late. For users, complex is pain.
Blogs on the other hand are pleasurable to use. Cheap, flexible and here now. Simple, but highly efficient; underneath the hood scriptable, secure and connectable.
But, as I have learned with having a government client, big iron gets budget spenders excited. Invariably, it seems, this top down 'blockbuster' approach never hits the mark with users and fails.
Our software can be used to study languages. Currently, you are able to set the language to be either German, French, Italian, Danish or Dutch from the default of English.
In Tim Lauer's flickr photo collection, I had to do a double take on this one. Hum, does anyone see a problem with this image? Two laptops, wide open, jail-house doors are unlocked and anyone could come in. Maybe this is where the teachers lock-up the network technicians when they go crazy? I have had some students that if the court system knew we had a room like this, they would have sentenced the juvenile delinquent to 180 days AT SCHOOL. Talk about a "hash working conditions." Ouch
New trained teachers out of work: "Teacher Training Agency figures confirm the trouble many primary school trainees have had in finding jobs."
Teaching tolerance amid tension: "The BBC's Mike Baker asks how schools can handle tensions when a bomber was a learning mentor."
Three good stories found in this site's aggregator.
According to the chief inspector of schools, David Bell, falling standards in schools are often a result of poor leadership.
In a report quoted in the Guardian, he suggests that: "We don't need thousands of perfect leaders; we just need to systemise the knowledge of the ones we have better."
Sounds like a perfect problem for knowledge blogs to open up,
contribute to, solve problems through, communicate and share best
practice. An open network of blogging heads. The good, the bad and the
ugly. Using the power of the network to find the smartest solution.
Maybe a business idea here. There are 24,000 heads in the UK.
Government also needed to ensure there were adequate funds for research, that cash was targeted appropriately and that enough was being done to encourage regional hotspots such as the hi-tech cluster around Cambridge." What about a blogging hotspot in the Midlands? Now, there's a good idea.
