There are 2,463 schools with an equity index. The number in each range are.Fewest 325
* Few 345
* Below Average 346
* Average 351
* Above Average 361
* Many 331
* Most 404
I've merged some spreadsheets together so people can search for a school and see its equity number, its band and group.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
4 comments:
How useful it would have been to have the terms used fully explained to us. As it stands, this disjointed snippet (I won't call it an article) makes sense only to those who are already well versed in the system, and who accordingly are already aware of the trends presented.
Why doesn't the ministry spend time on creating materials that would help teach the basics in for example basic literacy since reading is the quintessential element of schooling.
This would immediately lift educational standards and help raise the equity index of every junior school child.
These equity indexes will reinforce the sociological idea that social conditions determine a child's achievement.
This is false since effective teaching methods have been shown by science and research to be the determining factors in success.
Us teacher Marva Collins and others dramatically proved this as well when she had severely deprived inner city ghetto children succeeding well academically.
These equity standards will be used as excuses for under achievement instead of focusing on scientifically effective teaching and discipline in schools as we used to have traditionally last century before damnable Whole Language reading for example was introduced. .
Presumably they also publish IQ bands
Our Ministry of Education are not very interested in educating but instead social engineering.
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