Industrial Commission overturns NAPLAN ban
Updated Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:56pm AEST
School students writing during a test.
Tasmania's Industrial Commission has overturned an education union ban on administering the NAPLAN tests. (ABC News)
The Tasmanian teachers union has been ordered to lift its ban on the national literacy and numeracy tests.
The union joined a national ban on administering the NAPLAN tests, because it opposes using the results to form tables measuring a school's performance.
The Education Department took the dispute to the Tasmanian Industrial Commission, which today ruled it is in the public interest for the tests to go ahead.
Leanne Wright from the Education Union says her group will appeal against the decision.
"This is completely up to Julia Gillard," she said.
"We both agree that league tables are not good for education, we both agree that the NAPLAN testing is okay, she just needs to take steps to prevent the misuse of the data."
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Nice wording indeed:
League tables are unfair and destructive, and we all have a professional responsibility to say so. But we tackle league tables with argument, explanation and better information, not by denying our students, their families and you the diagnostic benefits of the 2010 NAPLAN.
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NSW的劳资关系委员会上周五也宣布NSW教师工会的抵制行动为非法。
但是这件事绝对没完。
NSW教师工会的头头Bob Lipscombe昨天说，虽然州教育部已经确认有大约85%的公立中小学会如期进行NAPLAN考试，但是政府无法做到全部的学校都可以有NAPLAN成绩。
当记者问他是否有进一步的激进行动的时候，他说教师工会不会采取任何暴力行动，但是对于是否工会会在学校考场外设置警戒线一事并没有表态。
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没用的，工会已经表示将无视这个决定
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