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by Ralph Jemmott
Mrs. Sandy Field-Kellman often makes an impassioned plea for children with learning challenges. Hers is a genuine concern in the sense that too often children’s learning “disorders” and “disabilities” go undetected and consequently unattended.
I have just finished re-reading a small 32-page
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June 1, 2021
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Ralph Jemmott
In a ‘Letter to the Editor’ entitled ‘Building a solid education Foundation,’ Walter Edey notes, and rightly so, that “an educational system is a complex multi-purpose knowledge network.” The super-structure of any education system like of any physical edifice, rests on the strength and security of its foundation.
Barbados is apparently embarking on a comprehensive reform of its education system. This would be a very ambitious project, fraught with dangers and unintended consequences. The Minister of Education might be advised firstly, to examine the foundational structure of primary education and try to remedy the deficiencies at that stage.
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#BTColumn – Sir Courtney Blackman on vision
Article by May 6, 2021
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Ralph Jemmott
The passing of Sir Courtney Blackman has left another void in the intellectual culture of Barbados. Over the last two decades we have lost a number of what some call, “engaged intellectuals.”
These comprised persons such as Gladstone Holder, Richard Allsopp, Leonard St. Hill, Leonard Shorey, Oliver Jackman and Frances Chandler. They comprised a cadre of commentators to whom one could turn for informed, critical, balanced and objectively measured judgment, whether we agreed with them or not.
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