Very pleased to share this new track/video by my talented friend Luke Webley. I’m enjoying this, hope others may also.
“Hit Me Harder” – Luke Webley
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The Big Top
With the war moving into its final year, Clarion, along with the rest of the residents of Birmingham, were reflecting on the damage done to their beloved city. An area in the heart of the shopping centre had been particularly badly hit, and a circus and fairground were erected on the bombed site. This provided some well-needed relief from the trauma of war, and provided an accessible venue for the many emerging talents in the city.
My late father, Ross, told me many tales of the Big Top and the Big Top site. Great to read about it here. Thanks.
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‘Statistical Methods’ underpinning UK Education Policy
Whether they are (Lies, Damned Lies and) Statistics or the Emperor’s New Clothes, pretty insubstantial.
Gove's claims of teenagers' ignorance harpooned by retired teacher | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Gove's claims of teenagers' ignorance harpooned by retired teacher | Politics | guardian.co.uk.
The man is an absolute disaster. One might be tempted to advise him to pay less attention to the UK's relationship with the European Union and more time focussed on his brief. The danger of that is he might actually do more damage given the opportunity.
An excellent read. Showing, yet again, that the evidence base for current UK education policy does not hold water, much less stand up to the most basic scrutiny.
We're going on a Gove Hunt
Michael Rosen has written an open letter to Michael Gove this week (http://bit.ly/wOR2vl). Rosen is critical of Gove's policy and approaches, I think it's fair to say he's not Gove's biggest fan. Rosen's classic children's book casts the bear in the role of the scary monster, but what if we were to face our modern day demons and go on a Gove hunt....
Will this be required reading in the new National Curriculum?
I do hope so!
Mr Gove
Mr Gove was extraordinarily arrogant.
Painfully arrogant.
He believed that he knew how everything should be done. He believed that everyone else in the world was stupid and ignorant.
The problem was, Mr Gove himself was the one who was ignorant.
He got most of his information from his own, misty, memory.
He thought he remembered what it had been like when he had been at school - and assumed that everyone else's school should be the same.
Thanks - been hoping someone would do this.
Actually I see Gove as Morph - the meddlesome claymation from 'VisionOn' and 'Take Hart' ...
Teachers unite to challenge Gove
Three halls in the ICC were required to accommodate the joint NUT/NASUWT regional rally today. The best part of one thousand teachers came to hear defiant speeches from Kevin Courtney (NUT), Chris Keates (NASUWT) and other teachers, parents, governors and students, denouncing the damage that is being done to education and teachers by Gove’s “reforms”. The rally was preceded by a lively march of 130 teachers, from the bottom of Corporation Street up to the Convention Centre.
We are all in this together - against them.
The unelected, mandate-less coalition are determined to destroy the society we have built, which they despise and deny. Blink and the legacy of universal education and public service free at the point of use bequeathed to us by our parents, grand parents and great grand parents will be given away to spivs and speculators.
