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Auckland Uni Sacks Staff Member for Trying to Shake Hands with Muslim Student (plus Tweets)

Auckland Uni Sacks Staff Member for Trying to Shake Hands with Muslim Student (plus Tweets)

by Heather Hastie | Mar 8, 2018 | Education, Human Rights, New Zealand, Religion, Tweets

Things are slightly better today. We won the fourth one-dayer (cricket) against England yesterday! It was a really exciting game. Ross Taylor was amazing – back to his best. His outstanding performance makes him every Kiwi cricket fan’s hero today....

Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Inspire Confidence in the Future of US Education

by Heather Hastie | Jan 19, 2017 | Education, US Politics

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about Trump’s nomination of Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary. I concluded K-12 education in the United States was going to get worse. (K = kindergarten; 12 = year 12.) DeVos’s confirmation hearing occurred this week, and...

Another Egregious Headline From Breitbart

by Heather Hastie | Dec 20, 2016 | Education, Religion

I frequently notice the difference between New Zealand media and the media in the United States. There’s plenty of lying for Jesus here, but the media is largely free of it. On the whole, our media don’t deliberately lie to push a certain point of view....

Has the USA Education System Been Set-Up to Fail?

by Heather Hastie | Nov 27, 2016 | Education, New Zealand, USA

I have to say up front that I have no expertise whatsoever in the field of education. This post is just a comment on what looks to me like a disaster waiting to happen. If anyone can give me evidence that my instinct is wrong, I’ll be glad to hear it. From an...

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