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• Trial needed for national standards

  
  The Standard — Authority: 605
  Anne Tolley should have the sense to listen to the teachers, the principals and the eduction experts. She should trial her national standards in primary schools to get information on the outcomes before introducing them nationally. The teachers want national standards tested in a trial, like other education ...
  1 day ago

• National standards may hit ESOL students

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 137
  FORMER international student Pouy Lewis recalls moving to New Zealand at a young age and not speaking a word of English. The 22-year-old ( pictured right ), who is fluent in English, now works as an accountant in Napier. She is worried the new national standards will severely impede the academic success of ...
  2 days ago

• Fear and loathing over what’s up in school

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 137
  T HE Government is holding its ground on controversial national standards for primary schools, and on the first day of school next year the rules will be put into action. The NewsWire IN DEPTH team of Fetu Tamapeau, Jess Jones, Vaughan Elder, Reuben McDougall and Bonnie Tai looks at why teachers and ...
  3 days ago

• The battle for standards

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 628
  The Herald reports : Education Minister Anne Tolley says she will sack the boards of primary schools which allow teachers to boycott national standards, saying they would be refusing to obey the law. Tensions over the new standards in literacy and numeracy are increasing. Teachers’ and principals’ unions ...
  5 days ago

• A battle too important to concede

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 628
  Stuff reports : The Government has intensified a developing standoff with teacher unions. After The Dominion Post revealed yesterday early plans by the primary teachers union to strike over the national standards policy, Education Minister Anne Tolley hit back, telling Parliament she was “disappointed” by ...
  1 week ago

• Wee gripes: Another Tolley lie

  
  The Standard — Authority: 605
  Minister of Education Anne Tolley is obviously feeling the heat of the reaction to her inexplicably daft decision to read a moralising children’s story book * to the PPTA Executive. Minister defends reading kid’s book to PPTA …The council says it was left somewhat bemused and feeling patronised that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just say no to puff pastry (oh yes, and Nick Smith)

  
  blogging it real — Authority: 112
  National Herald political columnists puff piece on the abominable Nick Smith had our readers reaching for their vomitories. Instead of stating the obvious - that everything the erratic member for Nelson touches turns to poo, and that he lacks the intellect, the temperament and management skills to be sitting within ...
  3 weeks ago

• No no no no no, Minister

  
  Ideologically Impure — Authority: 451
  Ministers reading picture books to schoolteachers . Ministers blaming horrific youth unemployment on ‘ some of them are only looking for paper runs ‘. Ministers deciding that league tables may be useless for schools but are perfect for hospitals . And Ministers declaring that anyone challenging one of our ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thickest. Minister. Ever.

  
  The Standard — Authority: 605
  So, imagine you’re the Minister for Education. You’re meeting with the PPTA executive, and sometime soon you’re expecting to announce big teacher layoffs. How do you handle the situation? How about reading the executive a children’s story book! This one should be good: “The Short and Incredibly Happy ...
  3 weeks ago

• The short and incredibly happy life of Tolley

  
  g.blog — Authority: 416
  Tolley was born happy. She had a mother and father, and they had lots and lots of money. They loved each other, and they had lots and lots and lots of money. Tolley was warm and cozy in whichever of her many houses she chose to live in. What more could she want? Tolley loved the simple things in life. She loved to ...
  3 weeks ago

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