New independent assessment results show primary and intermediate students made the equivalent of four months’ additional progress in mathematics between 2024 and 2026, signalling a turnaround in achievement, Education Minister Erica Stanford says.
The latest Progressive Achievement Test (PAT) data, released today by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER), show statistically significant improvements in mathematics and reading comprehension and vocabulary.
“Our number one priority in education has been raising achievement and closing the equity gap, and these results are incredibly encouraging.
“It means more children are building stronger foundations in literacy and numeracy. These are significant gains and another sign that we are finally starting to turn achievement around.
This is great news, and shows the importance of bedding in the reforms, rather than passing them or scrapping them.
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Wow, that is some difference. This is just such great news.
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
2 comments:
Stanford for PM - Yay!
I don't think many people realise the difficulty Erica has had to face in turning the school curriculum around .
She has had to fight an entrenched ideology of progressivism that prioritises everything else except academic achievement. But it is not only progressivism but Marxism that the unions, radical AEC ( Aotearoa Educators Collective ) NZEI ,academia , and even the Ministry have been steeped in for decades .
The main advantage she has is that all the English speaking world are addressing a similar problem of turning their curriculums around to what in reality is a return to traditional values and . Traditional Ed. is what Progressive Ed. has focused on hating The battle is quite viscious. The main incentive for educational change has been the drastic declines nationally and internationally in the basics of literacy and numeracy ,These declines were caused by the proven failures of the now thoroughly disproved by science research ,of Whole Language reading method and unstructured Numeracy Project..
But all the counter forces in educational organisations are fighting hard to hold onto their precious ideology .Gaynor .
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