http://www.reportageonline.com/2012/10/national-school-test-marks-off-for-aboriginal-children/ Magazine of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism Sun, 12 May 2013 03:05:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.reportageonline.com/2012/10/national-school-test-marks-off-for-aboriginal-children/comment-page-1/#comment-3043 Toni Waters Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:42:43 +0000 http://www.reportageonline.com/?p=16572#comment-3043 This is exactly what teachers in low socio economic, multicultural schools have been saying for over a decade now! It's time we measured the cultural richness and the high levels of engagement these schools offer! Even Einstein himself said "Imagination was more important than knowledge!" I wonder when the government will acknowledge and come up with a way of measuring creativity? Let's hope they don't as it will just end up as another written test! There is so much more to schooling than the tests that get so much limelight! It's time the government started spending funding more wisely on engaging students in schooling and celebrating the richness of the individual students in our schools on a daily basis! Toni This is exactly what teachers in low socio economic, multicultural schools have been saying for over a decade now! It’s time we measured the cultural richness and the high levels of engagement these schools offer! Even Einstein himself said “Imagination was more important than knowledge!” I wonder when the government will acknowledge and come up with a way of measuring creativity? Let’s hope they don’t as it will just end up as another written test! There is so much more to schooling than the tests that get so much limelight! It’s time the government started spending funding more wisely on engaging students in schooling and celebrating the richness of the individual students in our schools on a daily basis!
Toni

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