I somehow don't find a puff piece by the PPTA from 2007 very convincing. Since you've demanded quality research on the NZ situation above - surely you should be prepared to link something recent with even a vague connection to the NZ education environment....
Go on crying your crocodile tears for the wealthy EV owners. I'd say that shows your true colours.
There are indeed other educational pathways - but a 33% UE pass rate at state schools is nothing to be proud of. And all of the quals you mention (teachers, nurses, etc.) will all currently require UE for entry. The whole point of NCEA was to remove the ...
Given that student educational achievement closely tracks the decile of the state school - then "proper' education for those who can afford it and the basic life skills for the bottom" Is what we're already experiencing in the current education environment...
Epsom already has both private and decile 10 state schools - they have little need for charter schools - and probably little parental desire to switch. i.e. the parents are already happy with the schooling options. Remembering that the highly wealthy ...
Suggest you implement a study, which will meet your exacting requirements. Or link to one from the NZ context which proves (or even illustrates) your point. In the meantime, the rest of us will continue to observe the obvious. Integrated schools (which are...
There are already Maori immersion kura and wharekura within the state system (effectively integrated special character schools) https://www.education.govt.nz/our-work/overall-strategies-and-policies/te-rangai-kahui-ako-a-iwi/ However, a bilingual schooling...
Well, of course you never know... But outré suggestions don't materially add to the quality of the debate. National is standing back and letting Seymour go for it. They have the best of both worlds. If the charter schools succeed, then they get the kudos ...
It also throws off all your estimation skills. Being able to look at a result and just 'know' you've made an arithmetical error - because it doesn't match the tables pattern. The slowing down isn't as big an issue as they get to the higher levels of ...
The kds have been the collateral damage in the two greatest educational experiments in NZ history: Open plan classrooms (modern learning environments) and Balanced literacy. Both of which were implemented and vigorously supported by the MoE and the teacher...
The article was about Catholic schools - of course the catholicism was front and centre! There are other integrated schools, which are not religious - perhaps you might like to go and read up on them. However the points I took from the article: Community, ...
Has the Waitangi Tribunal ever summonsed another Minister to appear before them? If so, what was the result? There have certainly been other instances where the WT have felt that crown policies were against the treaty (Foreshore and Seabed Act, for example...
Education vouchers will be resisted to the death by the residents of the 'double Grammar zone' (and the equivalent in other areas). Their house prices are predicated on automatic qualification for one of the 'top' schools (just look at the real estate ...
Or those schools who want to offer this, could become charter schools.
Well, absent a time machine, it will never be clear that the same pupils would achieve similar results at different schools. However, the overwhelming statistical reality is that - on average - students perform much more poorly at state schools than in ...
It certainly doesn't make things better for the state schools. Since most of what they're doing doesn't 'work'. When you have 2/3 of the kids graduating within the state school system who are not qualified to go onto tertiary education (UE) - it's an ...
Not sure where you're going with these examples - I'd be surprised if any of the schools you mention had any interest in going 'charter' -they're already successful under the current rules. The push is more likely to be from special situation schools - ...
Quote from your article This year’s top 10 was made up of six private, two state and two state-integrated schools – the highest number of state schools in the rankings so far. Hardly a ringing endorsement for state education - given that the number of ...
In the future expect greater use of the power to summons Cabinet Ministers. If this is the case, I would expect the government to be rapidly enacting legislation to return the legal position to the previous default (de facto, if not de jure). Where the ...
Perhaps you could explain the connection to left politics or society in this comment - because it is certainly not apparent. If you just want to talk about sports - perhaps your own social media would be a better venue.
I suspect that a chunk of those schools will be those previously charter schools who were forcibly converted to integrated under the previous government. I doubt that Auckland Grammar is likely to be one of them. They effectively operate as a private ...
I mean comparing a Decile 3 school against results from other Decile 3 schools.
Guess that might be true.Although there doesn't seem to be any way around reporting of NCEA results - these are publicly available. There seems to be zero consequences for State schools reporting a multiple decade failure to actually teach kids. https://...
Would you trust State schools to truthfully report their students achievement?
So, has to be 30 years or longer ago. There haven't been nuns actively teaching in schools for quite some time. And, corporal punishment was equally as common in State schools during that period. Meanwhile, the current crop of Catholic schools are ...
Nope. It's achieving top results as a special character integrated school. I struggle to think of any State schools which are achieving above average decile level results. Perhaps you can contribute some.
What evidence would you accept? There is little point in providing any evidence for those people who have the default mantra of 'charter bad' Have a look at Vanguard - which was initially a charter school and has now transitioned (as required by the last ...
Ah, yes, those moderate people who are the core of our society. Who know that 'order' matters on a real day-to-day basis, while 'justice' is an abstract concept - that alters depending on your perspective and over time.
Well, they might have nothing to do with the wellbeing of the child. However, in many cases, there are reported instances where people raised very significant safety concerns with OT - who either did nothing, or acted ineffectually. It's not the odd one ...
News reporting of the cases. It's difficult to recall one which was the result of abuse, where there was not an OT report. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/133215639/baby-ru-homicide-uncle-says-he-made-a-formal-complaint-to-oranga-tamariki-almost-a-year-...
we don't even know statistically if moving children in the first place to adoptive places outside of their wider family ever confers any real benefits over the long-term. Empirically, we do know. The long tail and shameful tail of kids murdered by their ...
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