New attendance targets focus on getting children into class. But evidence suggests understanding why they are absent is the more important question.
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By choosing to offer the Cambridge exam system and publicly criticising NCEA, a group of prominent schools subtly helped shape the government’s new education policy.
Standardised testing has been tried and scrapped before. But with a tender for a new ‘standardised assessment tool’, the government appears to be trying again.
Instead of investing millions into schools vulnerable to the whims of private interests, the New Zealand government should be investing in bolstering exisiting public schools.
If the government is serious about addressing New Zealand’s shortage of psychologists, it needs to introduce practical job training earlier in the qualification process.
Here’s what the education system needs to do to help teachers address, repair and heal education towards and beyond reconciliation.
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