School Choice Makes the Heart Race!
February 16th 2010 at 5:45pm, By Dave Guerin
What a lovely surprise that the Report of the Inter-Party Working Group for School Choice was released today. I haven’t focused that much on compulsory education recently so didn’t even realise that this report was being done by Act, Maori Party and National MPs. I haven’t read the report in detail yet, but it is so refreshing to have ideas like this being discussed, rather than discarded, as in the 1999-2008 period. It’s even more encouraging than the PM’s Statement last week and I’m sure my old friend Norman LaRocque would be pleased.
Byron Bentley has issued a release on behalf of the Education Forum supporting the report in general (I am a member of the group) and the NZEI has started opposing it. I might do a post on some issues later.
Update: My considered view online now.
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2 Responses to School Choice Makes the Heart Race!
Paul Williams
February 17th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
I’d be interested in your views. On a cursory review of the paper, it’s surprisingly limited in its analysis and really just a description of issues and a summary of possible options. Not diagnostic, not analytical and not even close to linking cause to effect to solution. You may be interested to know that Russell Brown has posted on the report here: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,2328,hard-news-research-fail.sm
Dave Guerin
February 17th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
I’ll have a go at it now, if I can find an angle not already done by others – saw takes on it by a few blogs and a few media releases. Not too many people looking at the issues that deeply (and I know I didn’t above either).