Don't Stream Immigrant Children
22 December 2015
A timely report from the OECD shows the gap between children of immigrants and those of their peers, is closing. This is an important finding in the light of all the Syrian children about to enter OECD education systems. They also found that children of immigrants performed better if they were in schools without streaming.
I found it surprising that England, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands have streaming entrenched in their schooling systems. We had that debate in education here many years ago and decided unstreamed classes were best for all. (Ed)
Read the whole article here
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Holidays! Ahhhh
19 December 2015
That's it for schools until 2016. Have a great break everyone!!
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Only a few days to go...
16 December 2015
Hang in there teachers in Vic, WA, ACT and Tas! Lots of planning happening. Bookings for 2016 are really moving. Book your event now to get the dates you want. Enjoy your last day NSW schools!
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Year 12 results today.
15 December 2015
Good luck to all.
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Last week of school!
14 December 2015
The rest of Australia will be joining SA, Qld and NT on Christmas holidays this week. Yippee.
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NT, QLD and SA Finish this week!
8 December 2015
Not long to go now, everyone else finishing next week.
Here's our favourite holiday image.
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SFS December E news Out Today!
3 December 2015
Last enews for the year. Thanks to all our wonderful subscribers and presenters. Want a copy? Write to us at info@showsfor schools.com.au or simply subscribe here.
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Happy First Day of Summer Everyone!
1 December 2015
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Last day of Spring!
30 November 2015
Enjoy our last day of Spring everyone. Summer tomorrow. Yes!
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What you book with us - so interesting!
20 November 2015
It's so interesting to learn what's happening in schools around Australia by looking at the shows you book. And the range is so diverse.
To give you an idea, yesterday, some of the shows booked were - HIPPO!HIPPO! - The Musical, Bellydance for Positive Self Image, the Aussie Christmas Show, Chinese Lion Dance and The Freedom Ride. Wow. What a spectrum both of arts events and events you choose to enhance your curricula. Lucky kids.
Image: Bellydance for Positive Self Image
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You're Right - Our Internet is Slow
18 November 2015
Think our internet speed here is slow? You're right. We currently rank 44th in the world - a drop of 3 places since the last report in mid 2014 by US cloud service provider Akamai Technologies on the State of the Internet . Even New Zealand is now ahead of us.
With the slow roll out of the NBN, less than 500,000 households are connected, we needn't hold our breath waiting for an increase. Netflix is due to officially launch soon in Australia, but will our internet service be up to it?? Want to know where you should go to watch a decently streamed movie? Check out table below
| Top ten average global connection speeds |
| Rank |
Country |
Speed (Mbps) |
| 1 |
South Korea |
25.3 |
| 2 |
Hong Kong |
16.3 |
| 3 |
Japan |
15.0 |
| 4 |
Switzerland |
14.5 |
| 5 |
Sweden |
14.1 |
| 6 |
Netherlands |
14.0 |
| 7 |
Ireland |
13.9 |
| 8 |
Latvia |
13.4 |
| 9 |
Czech Republic |
12.3 |
| 10 |
Singapore |
12.2 |
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Myanmar Moving to Democracy
11 November 2015
The results won't be known for a few days yet, but it looks like Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) might have garnered up to 70% of the vote.
This is a major step toward democracy, the next will be in March 16 with voting for a President.
The world has to admire the strength of Aung San who was under house arrest for 15 years and applaud that her efforts have been instrumental in bringing about this move to democracy in a country that has been ruled by military dictatorship for so many years.
I remember visiting Burma in the late 1970's. Once the rice bowl of Asia, even then, the daily living conditions of people were severely straightened. Many people I spoke to survived on one meal a day. The (illegal) night market openly set up in the main streets of Rangoon, was the only place you could buy any products from other countries - if you had American dollars.
That was over 30 years ago. The fortitude of a people to survive and fight is so impressive and so removed from our comfortable existence in Australia.
Read more about the ramifications of this election in Myanmar here
Image: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun in The Convesation
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