Letter

In response to Half the truth: defending public education requires more honesty, not less

Measuring learning

I write to congratulate and thank John Frew for so skilfully and succinctly articulating the missing gap in talking about education and learning. For years in senior education positions, I tried to counter the neoliberal arguments about measuring learning and have done so repeatedly and unsuccessfully. John has captured the essence of context, cultural variation and measurement.

Well done John for your magnificent enunciation of the complexity and cultural non-uniformity of teaching and learning in schools that we continue to ignore in our planning.

Best wishes Dr Gerald White

— Gerald White from Seacliff