I confess I do not really understand the debate on national standards for education. This is a sad admission for an opinionated bloke like myself, but I really just don’t understand the teacher’s unions objections to them. I have tried to follow the debate but the union’s response makes no sense at all to me.
It seems [...]

I’m puzzled.
There seems to be a lot of negativity being generated by the principles and teachers concerning the new education standards introduced yesterday. I understand the usual plea of  schools saying they “needed more time to prepare”. The education system is notorious for having more resistance to change than even the health system, a resistance [...]

Both Kerre Woodham and The HOS editor comment on Professor John Hattie’s study that reveals that the only thing that really matters in education is the skill of the teacher – everything else comes a very poor second. Both Woodham and the Editor observe that this has the strong implication that teachers should be paid on [...]