PLATO

The Education Watchdog

PLATO's MISSION STATEMENT
  1. To lobby government and attached educational bureaucracies to attend diligently to the primary function of education, ie educating children optimally.

  2. To research and present to the administrators of education world best practice in the education of children.

  3. To alert the community and government of attempts to introduce fads and ideologically driven initiatives in the education of children.
We support, and have always supported, the practice of adopting outcomes that set quantifiable standards in academic skills and subjects, and whose accomplishment by students can be verified through objective testing.

We absolutely condemn the setting of pseudo-standards that are vague, not academic or practical in nature, and therefore cannot be verified through objective testing.

We also condemn the installation of overclaimed and unproved educational methods, whose only merits are their novelty and the evangelism by which powerful, bureaucratic non-practitoners seek to impose them.

This page last updated 11 August, 2008 9:14 PM