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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
School evaluation is an essential component of the education system. Identifying high-performing and underperforming schools is vital for building an evidence base for what works to improve education outcomes for students. 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
Monday saw Wellington’s Lambton Quay come alive with a joyful parade celebrating Māori Language Week. Yet, when asked whether her government would make te Reo compulsory in schools Prime Minister Ardern dodged the question, explaining instead that even if the government wanted to do this, New Zealand lacks the necessary teaching workforce. Read more
A new report has found that New Zealand spends 5.5% of our national income on schooling - the seventh highest in the OECD. Chief Economist Dr Eric Crampton spoke to Mike Hosking and said larger class sizes are not a bad thing - if you have good quality teachers. Read more
During a visit to a new London charter school in 2015, then-Mayor Boris Johnson sparred with a 12-year-old over the year the Roman Empire converted to Christianity (313 AD). Johnson was wrong (by a year) and dumbstruck by the knowledge of the inner-city children. Read more
We at the Initiative share Education Minister Hipkins’s desire for a stronger vocational sector. But we are less convinced that centralising the sector will solve the problem. Read more
The very best part of grad school was the drinking. Well, not so much the drinking. Read more