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Podcast: Revolving Door Syndrome
Episode: #57 - Dr Nina Hood - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Broke The Classroom
Description: Our education system is in a code red emergency.We are failing our students, parents and educators yet we are unwilling to have constructive debate on the root cause. Hot topics like the structured literacy versus balanced literacy debate results in sensationalist biased headlines that deepen the ideological divide.According to New Zealand's Auditor General, the Ministry of Education does not know why we have worsening disparities in educational outcomes for our richest and poorest neighbourhoods.When we send our children to state schools to be educated by teachers who trained in taxpayer-funded...