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Should homework be history? #edchatie
www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2019/1121/1094354-should-homework-be-history/
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There's increasing doubt that some forms of homework for young children serve any real purpose. One school in south Dublin is currently experimenting with a ban on written homework. How is it working ...3 hours ago
This is a really good article disputing the NCSE's interim report. #edchatie
amp.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/columnists/lets-get-real-about-the-kids-who-cant-do-main...
Let’s get real about the kids who can’t do mainstream schools
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We cannot draw definitive conclusions from the literature that one type of educational placement is better than another, says Victoria White6 hours ago
Excellent article and the most comprehensive one on the topic that I have read to date!
Plan to prevent schools asking about special needs ‘ill-conceived’ #edchatie www.irishtimes.com/news/education/plan-to-prevent-schools-asking-about-special-needs-ill-conceive...
Plan to prevent schools asking about special needs ‘ill-conceived’
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Teachers criticise measure which is set to apply to enrolment policies within two years1 day ago
McHugh's only concern is the FG agenda, he clearly doesn't care about education. One day he's launching an initiative to teach maths through Irish, the next he's proposing to put children who would struggle hugely learning the subject in English into the very same classes? The lack of consistency, cohesion & joined-up thinking is mind-boggling. It's as if he doesn't have a clue. I never thought it'd be possible, but this fella is worse than Brutal Bruton!
This plan has nothing to do with children and their needs, it's all about saving money to spend on broadband and other government croney investment; when the 7 years of broadband expansion are up we will have another privately owned obsolete technology countrywide, and an education system based on currently failed idealogies, serving nobody, not the pupils, not the parents and not the teachers, nobody is saying stop to this lunacy, the minister was trained and employed as a teacher, why can't he see the idiocy of traipsing after failed systems in other jurisdictions. Wake up, Minister, please.
www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/oireachtas-education-committee-chair-accused-of-supportin...
Oireachtas Education Committee chair accused of supporting 'porn literacy' in leaflet campaign
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Oireachtas Education Committee chair Fiona O’Loughlin is the latest target of a campaign objecting to changes expected in the Relationships and Sex Education programme in schools.1 day ago
This is a tweet from Jody Carr who came to Ireland this week to tell us all about inclusion in Irish schools from his own perspective in New Brunswick. #edchatie
Now Jody might be surprised to know that Irish schools already can't, by law, deny children enrollment based on the ground of disability. They can however do so on the grounds of gender and religion.
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