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Wellington (4 March 2018): The New Zealand Initiative’s newest report Spoiled by Choice analyses the history and evolution of NCEA; and its impact on students, teachers and end-users. 15 years of sustained decline in our students’ performance in PISA assessments testifies to NCEA’s negative unintended consequences. Read more
“NCEA might be good for students’ self-esteem, but it is failing too many - particularly disadvantaged - students and needs to be reformed,” says our new report Spoiled by Choice. The report is one of the headlines of the news bulletins on Newstalk ZB. Read more
Education is about learning. However, as assessment expert Alison Wolf explains: …formal education is also, and intrinsically, about selection and certification… ~ Wolf, A. Read more
We all want a New Zealand where citizens can enjoy a healthy and prosperous life. But, there is still a long way to go. Read more
Imagine buying a house, or choosing a spouse without knowing anything about them. You wouldn’t do it. Read more
Sunday's "Save our charter schools march" was a moving experience. It wasn't just the hundreds of people who turned up in torrential rain to protest. Read more
In the 1940s, a different Lipson (that one an English political scientist) famously remarked that if Wellington or Auckland harbours were ever to have a statue akin to that in New York, it would assuredly be a statue of Equality. The ideal of a fair-go runs deep in the New Zealand psyche, and rightly so. Read more
New Zealand school principals should add to their skills repertoire: ‘Magician’. In the week leading to the first day of school, leaders were reaching into their hats of creative tricks to fill vacancies. Read more
The north London suburb of Wembley may be the home of English football. But until a few years ago, that was probably its only claim to fame. Read more
The 2016 PIRLS results announced this week are bad. PIRLS (the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) compares the reading ability of Year 5 students. Read more