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Gillard wants inspectors, ID numbers in schools
Dan Harrison EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT
February 25, 2010 - 3:00AM
THE Education Minister, Julia Gillard, has flagged the possibility of sending in inspectors as part of a second wave of reforms to fix underperforming schools.
Speaking at the National Press Club yesterday, Ms Gillard said she would examine ways to provide the support and scrutiny necessary to drive schools to improve, which could include ''physical inspections'' or ''quality audits''.
''I believe that you've got to have the doors open,'' she said.
''Gone are the days when we could have teachers in classrooms with the door closed. I obviously want to see a debate about what more we need to do.
''This may involve external assessment and inspection of schools, and it will certainly involve strengthening school-based performance management of individual teachers.''
Ms Gillard also promised the government would introduce identification numbers for all school children, to help track the progress of individual students between different schools, school systems and states.
She said the ''unique student identifier'' would allow governments to evaluate the performance of schools and teachers ''with full rigour''. It could also be used to develop a measure of the value schools add to students, which could be published on the My School website.
But the announcement drew immediate criticism from the Coalition. The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, suggested the scheme was a national identity card by stealth.
''I think that children should have names, not numbers. And I'm concerned about any proposal that seems to commodify our kids,'' he said.
But Ms Gillard said Mr Abbott was speaking before thinking.
''The reason we need the number is so as a government we don't need the names. The number is a privacy protection.''
The opposition education spokesman, Christopher Pyne, suggested hackers could gain access to the results and use them to bully children.
The Australian Education Union federal president, Angelo Gavrielatos, said the idea raised serious issues about privacy and the ethical use of student data.
As an interim measure, Ms Gillard said she had asked the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, which is responsible for the My School website, to investigate how student progress could be measured using existing national testing data.
''With the co-operation of education authorities, and without identifying individual students, it should be possible to link national testing records so that student progress can be identified from year to year once the 2010 national tests have been taken,'' she said.
Ms Gillard also announced that the national curriculum, which will be released on Monday, would require the explicit teaching of grammar in every year from kindergarten to year 12.
The draft curriculum, in English, Maths, Science and History, will be available for public consultation at the website www .australiancurriculum.edu.au.
with Brian Robins
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/e ... -20100224-p3m5.html
[教育部长:学生们将得到ID号码(“学生标识”),不间断追踪孩子整个教育阶段表现
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