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by Kevin Donnelly - For a nation our size, Australia is well served with think-tanks and related internet sites evaluating and advocating policy from a range of different perspectives.

By Kevin Donnelly - If it is a truism that Australians love sport, it is equally true that Australians love to celebrate success. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for those controlling our education system.

Kevin Donnelly - July 3, 2009 - The cultural-Left and the Minister for Social Inclusion, Julia Gillard, reject such research. Believing that social class determines educational success or failure conforms to the socialists’ worldview—one where capitalist society is riven with inequality and injustice and doing well has nothing to do with merit, application or ability. Such a self-fulfilling prophecy also justifies spending millions on feel-good programs that aim to overcome

Kevin Donnelly
Whatever happened to teachers, students and learning?
For the past 30 years our schoolkids have been subjected to more experimentation than your average CSIRO lab rat. In classrooms all over the country, confused and frustrated teachers must adopt PC and new-age views on multiculturalism, the environment, the class war, peace studies, feminism and gender studies. Powerful teacher unions argue they should support students who protest in the streets, professional organisations argue that the purpose of education should be to empower students to overthrow the status quo, and subject associations argue that English must be used to teach students the right way to vote.