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My #reading April 2016

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on April 23, 2016

Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in […]

Posted in Digital life, Featured | Tagged Alan Moorehead, Barry Cunliffe, Craig McGregor, CS Lewis, Douglas Rushkoff, Helen Garner, Jeff Jarvis, JRR Tolkien, Orwell, reading, reading in 2016, Thomas Piketty, Thornton McCamish | 1 Comment

The Road to Serfdom & Capital in the 21st Century

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 21, 2014

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 […]

Posted in Education, Featured, Government | Tagged Australia, budget, Friedrich Hayek, ideaology, politics, Thomas Piketty | 4 Comments

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Darcy Moore

@Darcy1968

Just found an edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four with a critical introduction and really useful annotations by Bernard Crick, Clarendon Press, 1984. John Rodden, in his new book (2020) on #Orwell’s reception and reputation, recommends it as under-appreciated and hard to find. pic.twitter.com/3679…

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“The whole system is a catastophe” says @PiccoliMp re: #Naplan which was predicted in 2009 by educational experts but political expediency won the day and our system lost out. #SMHSchools

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An unusually hypercritical message about our edu-systems from academics, unionists & educrats today. How will the same people, who have been i/c across the plethora of edu-bodies for 20 years, change their thinking to build a properly functioning education system? #SMHSchools

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The biggest drop in #PISA is the top quartile says @mscott and once again the question begs, is that a problem created by our inherently managerial approach to curriculum? #SMHSchools

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How important is it to reflect on the impact of managerial outcomes based syllabi in the decline @GMastersACER highlights in the performance of Australian 15 year olds over the last 15 yrs? Does a clear parallel with this model of curriculum and lower lit/num emerge? #SMHSchools

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Who will be talking about this at the #SMHSchools tomorrow? education.nsw.gov.au…

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