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Jim and Jillian Dellit established this website to bring together their various endeavours, to engage with and contribute to the educational community and educational delivery. Jillian is continuing this work both in her own right, and to keep faith with Jim's life, 1947-2014, and their productive partnership 1970-2014.

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August 3

Our un-Australian Equity Gap posted by Jillian in ACARA, Education policy, Education reform, equity, Uncategorized

With all its shortcomings, the My School website, together with data from successive PISA results, is providing evidence that you need  more than luck to get a fair educational go in the Lucky Country.

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July 7

Guest blog: Rising costs of a failure to communicate and educate posted by Jim in Uncategorized

We invited our compadre and colleague Lindsay Fitzclarence to contribute on education and the environment. The Road is a novel written by the American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a story of a man and his son traveling through an … Continue reading →

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June 19

Education malaise? Take a tablet or two… posted by Jim in Uncategorized

How will the education machinery respond to tablet technologies? I am iPad enthusiast. In this technology, unlike many others, I was an early adopter. I had gained enormously from having an e-reader – its convenience and storage capacity simply meant … Continue reading →

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June 13

Lessons from the past: #1 posted by Jim in Uncategorized

When it comes to education, there is no such thing as ‘the good old days’. Good things did, of course happen – mostly to those of us who succeeded. It is easy to feel nostalgic about a happy and rewarding … Continue reading →

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