Education Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/education/ My take on our world Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:18:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png Education Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/education/ 32 32 Auckland Uni Sacks Staff Member for Trying to Shake Hands with Muslim Student (plus Tweets) https://www.heatherhastie.com/auckland-uni-sacks-staff-shake-hands-muslim/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/auckland-uni-sacks-staff-shake-hands-muslim/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:10:15 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=5965 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. I’ve put several tweets on his feat in the “Sports Tweets” below. So there’s a […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/auckland-uni-sacks-staff-shake-hands-muslim/feed/ 21 Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Inspire Confidence in the Future of US Education https://www.heatherhastie.com/betsy-devos-doesnt-inspire-confidence-future-us-education/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/betsy-devos-doesnt-inspire-confidence-future-us-education/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2017 03:27:48 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3500 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 I’m now even more concerned about the situation in that country […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/betsy-devos-doesnt-inspire-confidence-future-us-education/feed/ 30 Another Egregious Headline From Breitbart https://www.heatherhastie.com/another-egregious-headline-breitbart/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/another-egregious-headline-breitbart/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:53:29 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3387 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. We’re lucky to have a media that is largely […]

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