
Humans Need Not Apply
We need to start thinking now what do we do when large sections of the population are unemployable through no fault of their own. What […]

I Voted!
There have been many posts about our school’s nurturing democracy program over the last few years at my blog, including this one about our plan to […]

The Road to Serfdom & Capital in the 21st Century
Hugh Mackay, in a recent article about the 2014 federal budget, asks Australians to consider: is this the Australia we really want to be? To answer […]

Democracy at school
Does your school hold authentically democratic elections? The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is conducting our school elections for the first time in 2014 as our […]

The 21st Century Education ‘Debate’ in Australia
“More than anything else, we want to take the politics out of this issue.” […]

Nurturing Democracy
“The tone of modern political discourse [in Australia] has caused younger generations to become disillusioned with government, and by extrapolation, with democracy.” SOURCE “In a […]

The Soap Opera
“Politics is war by other means.” Foucault The soap opera that is Australian politics entered a new phase last night. Three […]

Pearson & ACARA
The next generation of NAPLAN literacy and numeracy tests will transform the monitoring of students’ development of these key foundational skills. It will be 21st […]

BYOD (in a post-DER world)
State schools in NSW are grappling with a post-DER world. The Digital Education Revolution funding from the federal government provided Lenovo laptops, technical support and […]
Big History, Bill Gates & Diane Ravitch
“Diane Ravitch is the rarest of scholars—one who reports her findings and conclusions, even when they go against conventional wisdom and even when they counter her […]