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LEFT AND RIGHT?
"The Left and Right have been as bad as each other. The Left has
allowed its distrust of markets and endless faith in government
to obscure the importance of civil society. The Right has been
so focused on replacing the state with markets that it has
forgotten how to cultivate a trusting society.
This is the politics of the absurd. The Left identifies with the
good society but rarely talks about the mutualism and trust
between people. The Right recognises the importance of moral
obligation but gives the impression of trusting market
transactions more than civil society.
Few things seem to happen anymore
without a government law or market transaction to guide
them. This is how record levels of GDP in Australia now sit
alongside record levels of crime, social stress and family
breakdown. The political balance needs to swing back towards
civil society.
This task, in fact, requires a new type of politics."
Mark Latham, Mutualism: A Third Way for Australia," 1999.
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Whatever Happened to the
Education Revolution?
Forums
Sydney Monday 17
August 2009
10.00am - 2.00pm
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt
Street, CBD.
Melbourne Tuesday 18 August 2009
10.00am - 2.00pm
Angliss Conference Centre, 555 La Trobe St,
CBD.
Register Here
Can we develop a parents movement for a real education revolution?
Refurbishing school halls and
gymnasia are the least important priorities for parents and educators in
improving our schools and education systems. Renovating our school cultures by
tailoring education to individual student needs and parent expectations is far
more important. The inability of federal and state governments to look beyond
bricks and mortar in thinking about education is a bi-partisan political
tradition in Australia which serves our children and young people poorly. It is
particularly disappointing that the Commonwealth Government, having promised an
education revolution in 2007, seems intent on delivering little more than renovations
to buildings.
Most parents, educators and
policymakers want a real education revolution. So how do we get it?
Speakers:
Parents as partners in education
Andrew Kohane,
Parent, Winters Flat Primary School
Lena Bailey, Parent, Students with
Disabilities
Breaking the
stalemate in reform
Brian Caldwell,
Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
The reform agenda
David Hetherington,
Executive Director per capita
Julie Novak, Research Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs
 
David Hetherington Julie Novak
With:
Panels of parents and educators on:
Student-centred funding entitlements for children with learning difficulties and
disabilities
Outsourcing the management of selected state schools to foundations and parent
associations
Charter for a Real Education Revolution
We will
explore and discuss a Charter for a Real Education Revolution as a tool
for opening up debate about school reform and developing a broad parent-driven
movement for real change in education. A draft outline of the Charter
appears
here.
We want your input into this process.
We are looking at doing this in a
very systematic, school by school-based way, with a parent contact in every
school in the country where we can establish one.
Suggestions and proposals are invited for
ideas and strategies for using the Charter as an educative and campaign
tool in education reform. Please
forward your proposals to:
Vern Hughes
Secretary
National Federation of Parents,
Families and Carers
vern@civilsociety.org.au
PO Box 159 Yarraville Vic 3013
Tel: 0425 722 890
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TRANSFORMING OUR
SCHOOLS
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STREET BY STREET SUBURB BY SUBURB
Community Building and Social Inclusion
National Development Conference
21/22 April 2010
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CORPORATE
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Latest Handout Tally
$6.4b Car manufacturers subsidies
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Communitarianism,
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MAKING IT PERSONAL
Charlie Leadbeater, Jamie
Bartlett and Niamh Gallagher have authored this highly
influential Demos Report on Self-Directed Services
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