Sentiment Hits Right Note

IT'S been a dreadful week if you're one of those daggy sods who enjoyed Australian Idol. Not quite as bad as admitting to loving the Eagles concert, but almost. And if you were silly enough to admit to anyone within cooee of a Darlinghurst macchiato that you actually lined up for tickets to both events, expect to find your name linked to Wilson Tuckey on a rumour mill any time soon.

National Testing Is The Agenda, Not Teaching Methods

What's Brendan Nelson's agenda in reviving the old furphy about a lack of phonics teaching? It can't be the famous letter from the 26 "experts" who've obviously never been within cooee of a school if they seriously think phonics is neglected (I could easily get 27 experts to say what guff it is).