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Monthly Archives: April 2009

The impoverished competitiveness agenda

Three more weeks of school to go, and I’ve had to give the blog a rest – swimming hard just to tread water. But a surge of interest in curriculum reform holds promise for messy conflict and endless debate about what school is – or should be – about, and this seems like a good [...]

Make Your Mark Heavy and Dark

This is testing week, and I’ve been listening to what the kids are hearing about the tests. “Relax; just do your best.” “The tests give us information about how we can help you.” “You will not be held back or get a bad grade on your report card if you don’t do well on the [...]