Category Archives: Education

Technology for the sake of it

May 8, 2007 – 12:03 am

I’m going to have a little bitch here. Because today, in the middle of my class, when I was explaining some very interesting concepts, some students were very obviously looking at something amusing and not at all law related on their laptop screens. I thought about jumping up and down, screaming and throwing the laptops [...]

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When school ain’t cool

May 3, 2007 – 10:13 pm

How far should private schools be expected to improve the results of struggling students? A Werribee man is reportedly suing Mentone Grammar, saying that it did not live up to its promise that it would try to help his son improve his academic results. He alleges that the school did not tell the parents about [...]

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The little engine that could…

March 25, 2007 – 8:46 pm

Readers may remember an earlier post I did on what kind of praise helps children’s self-esteem the most - praise for intelligence, or praise for effort? A reader sent me this blog post which links to a further description of the results of the research. This has implications not just for parenting, but for business, [...]

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The Old School Tie

March 3, 2007 – 9:34 pm

Mandatory disclosure policy: Lest I be accused of hypocrisy in a “Lefty-like” fashion, I should disclose here that I attended a public primary school and two private high schools, one in Australia and one in the UK. My mother taught in a public high school for many years.
I was reading about the rise in private [...]

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Damn them with faint praise

February 14, 2007 – 7:51 pm

I couldn’t help being fascinated by the New York Times article about praising your kids. For some reason, I’ve been thinking about my schooling lately (not just because the question of sex ed at school got raised recently…) Perhaps it’s because I’m already nervous about sending my darling precious daughter to school.
One girl I know [...]

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