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costargh:
Don't know if anyone has posted this...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-making-of-a-school/2007/12/18/1197740268972.html
An Opinion piece relating to Public and Private schools (including Catholic schools)
Edit: Changed link
brendan:
yeah me and nick1989 were discussing that article on irc yesterday. i do educational research, and Chris Wheat's opinion piece is misleading and not supported by hard evidence. i'm disappointed that he would talk such crap, but i'm not surprised. if i ever wanted to give a good example of bullshitting at its finest, Chris Wheat's piece is a prime example.
Here is a good summary of the empirical research evidence:
Professor Bill Louden
Head of School, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia
Title: What makes the most difference - and what would it take to get more of it?
http://melbourneinstitute.com/conf/school/Presentations/Session%202/Louden,%20Bill_161107.pdf
Dr. Ken Rowe, PhD
Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research
Background paper to keynote address presented at the ACER Research Conference 2003
Title: The Importance of Teacher Quality as a Key Determinant of Students’ Experiences and Outcomes of Schooling
http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/Rowe_ACER_Research_Conf_2003_Paper.pdf
costargh:
Yeh I was actually thinking as I read the article " This guy has basically failed to back up any of his arguments with evidence in any form". It was also very vague at times which was frustrating to try and develop a PoV on the issue.
I'll have a look at those links probably tommorow. Christmas today and just making a quick FSN stop over =)
brendan:
Dr. Ken Rowe, PhD
Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research
"Making Schools Better Conference" Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne 2004
Title: The importance of teaching: Making Better Schools by building teacher capacities that maximise the quality of teaching & learning provision
http://melbourneinstitute.com/conf/prevconf/Papers_presentations/Rowe__Ken_presentation.pdf
DrowNz:
To me it all comes down to ones attitude and determination. If you want to do well, you will no matter where you're at. And if you don't, well, no Private school will help you.
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