Noel Pearson says the waves of alcohol-fuelled mayhem on the streets of Alice Springs can in part be explained by education systems abandoning the underclass. He says he knows where to turn to fix it.
can be explained, in part, by education authorities’ abandonment of the Indigenous underclass and their rejection of evidence-based theories of teaching, activist, lawyer and intellectual Noel Pearson says.
Mr Pearson told the conference of 2300 teachers and administrators that the approach adopted by Catholic Education Canberra Goulburn, known as Catalyst, was right, and that he had come to their conference to give it his ringing endorsement.Catholic Education Canberra Goulburn, which has 56 schools, is the first to take a system-wide approach to consistent approaches to what is taught, how it is taught and how it is assessed.
He pointed to research showing that 25 per cent of children would learn to read no matter how it was taught, the middle 50 per cent would struggle through and manage to be competent readers, but the bottom 25 per cent would never learn to read without explicit instruction, which includes phonics.
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