Tag achievement

School funding not always linked to results

Investing in education is one of the most promising ways for countries to secure their future. And yet, there is a surprisingly tenuous relationship between the amount of money spent per student and the results of international Pisa tests, at…

Primary schools to measure student progress

In response to – August 26, 2017. Measure. Measure. Measure. Weigh. Weigh. Weigh. Data. Data. Data. “The Government has made a decision to shift towards a system that measures student progress, alongside National Standards / Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori,…

Academic or Mechanic?

The old smell of oil, diesel and grease fills the nose. The hunched over worker looks sideways from under the hood of a new Mercedes Benz and sighs with disappointment at the new arrival to his workshop. As I get…

CoLs: Achievement Challenge Numbers

Part of establishing a CoL has been the task of setting an “Achievement Challenge” that all schools in your CoL will aim for and target. In the initial stages, schools were gun ho, with vast varieties of creative innovations for…

Gold medals for all

Global (Bulk) Funding In the weekend just been, I caught up with Ms Parata’s latest palava regarding schooling and in particular, the funding of it. Needless to say, there was lots of conjecture, and I found it hard (yet again)…

Inherit Racism in NZ Education

Time and time again, we are told about the ‘long tail of underachievement’ and the hideously stereotyped over representation of Māori students within it. And because there is a ‘problem’, it seems that everyone is solely focussed on the achievement…

The Gap is Closing

In response to: Hekia Parata: Improved Maori education shows gap is closing Key Points Data used by Hekia Parata is from 2008 to 2014. Why didn’t she use 2015 Data which would have been more current? Up to 2014, before schools…