Education Revolution


Mungo: Education revolution needs more thought

States, schools and teachers had bloody well better shape up, because those who fail will be punished to within an inch of their lives and if necessary beyond, writes Mungo MacCallum.

A teacher’s letter to the PM

Until you start paying teachers decently as they work their way up the pay scale, you will never keep the good people in the job, writes Joycelyn Brewer

Lowbottom High Diaries: Classrooms without performance indicators

‘I reckon youse is for the big drop, Sir,’ quoth Tarquin this very day. The honorific, it should be said, was delivered in a tone strictly ironic, writes Trevor Diogenes.

Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks

Give ‘em a serve Julia … The wise Aristotle … No solos in this government … Eat a whale, save the planet … The Daily Reality Check … The Pick of this Morning’s Political Coverage …

Election promises be damned, Rudd must abandon populism

Kevin Rudd promised that Labor’s decisions on policy would be “evidence based”, but the evidence belies that so far, writes Mark Bahnisch.

Flint: Rudd’s digitally enhanced rhetoric dupes swooning media

Tired by a campaign which he says is “just so damn hard,” Kevin Rudd should be encouraged that there could be a job for him at the ABC if he doesn’t win — as an autocue reader at Media Watch, writes David Flint.

Kevin 07 in chapter and verse

Kevin was rock and roll, Kevin was angry. Even delivering broadband makes Kevin cross. Or is that determined? Jonathan Green ponders the ALP campaign launch.