I just read this headline in the ABC online news - click here - which continues, "Australian schools require an investment of one and a half billion dollars over the next decade and an overhaul of 'faddish' teaching practice to reverse the nation's chronic maths failure, according to new research."
What's so bad about chronic maths failure? It goes well with chronic reading and writing failure! I don't know about 'faddish' teaching practices; perhaps we could save ourselves the investment of one and a half billion dollars by simply burning certain kindergarten books.
And while we were at it, we could also put a match to John Howard's autobiography, "Lazarus Rising", "Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM", Mark Latham's "The Latham Diaries", Julia Gillard's memoir, "My Story", and anything Albanese may be planning to stitch together about his deprived Housing Commission childhood.
