Gordon Campbell on the excellent new classroom materials about climate change
Inevitably, children hear a lot about climate change – on the news, on the street, from their friends – and a lot of that news […]
Education
Gordon Campbell on the teachers’ struggle for better pay and conditions
These days, strike action is essentially a game of three dimensional chess, and the industrial stoppages coming our way in education are a case in point.
Gordon Campbell on bidding good riddance to charter schools
There has never been a body of evidence – either here or in the US or anywhere else – to show that charter schools provide better educational results for kids
The crisis in secondary school teaching
An interview with PPTA president, Jack Boyle
Gordon Campbell on privatising education, and the Amen Break
John Quiggin’s argument on market experiments seems especially relevant to this country at a time.
Smart Idiots
Just because you’re educated doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot
Failure to Launch
The government hopes that voters won’t notice its failure to provide jobs for the young
Handwriting’s premature demise
Computers have not killed handwriting (yet)