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Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it” – unless it was too intense and bad for our mental health. Wait, no, that’s not right. Read more
Too many children pass NCEA without being functionally literate. Minister Hipkins committed, in his 2019 NCEA change package, to address this by raising the bar. Read more
For too long many New Zealanders have viewed low-decile schools as lower quality. And it is easy to see why. Read more
In his speech last week at the NZEI conference, Education Minister Hipkins reminded the audience of primary school teachers that he had scrapped national standards because he was listening, and because the standards were neither national nor standard. It was catchy rhetoric that, if we follow his logic, has implications for our national curriculum, too. Read more
Determining what works and what does not is important for any business developing better products and services. And keeping a close watch on quality control matters a lot too. Read more
Finding that water flows downhill is not all that surprising. But it can be vey much worth knowing how fast that water moves, and how badly wrong we can be if we assume the waters are still. Read more
Abolishing New Zealand’s decile-based school funding system may get rid of the decile stigma of some schools. However, it does nothing to address the underlying issues, says a new research note by think tank The New Zealand Initiative. Read more
Low-decile schools are often viewed as being of lower quality by parents and are disproportionately categorised by ERO in the underperforming category. However, findings from The New Zealand Initiative’s latest report, In Fairness to Our Schools: Better measures for better outcomes, suggests that many low-deciles schools are some of the top-performers in the country. Read more
How do you rate a secondary school's performance? For many parents the decile rating becomes the default measure. Read more
Dr Eric Crampton talks to TVNZ Breakfast about our new report In Fairness to our Schools. He explains the results of our innovative new tool that enables the performance of schools to be properly measured and how it can be used to provide better outcomes for all students in New Zealand. Read more