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This collection of materials (see menu on left) provides a PPTA viewpoint on current issues in education.
National Standards
The government’s intent is to implement National Standards in New Zealand primary schools despite a lack of evidence to show the policy will achieve anything positive. This is a misguided approach to a manufactured “crisis” with disastrous effects on students and teachers.
The policy is driven by ideology. Research evidence shows that National Standards will not lead to improved outcomes for students. They will simply label individual students as failures, and may lead to league tables that wrongly label schools as failures. Many countries that have gone down this route in the past are now turning away from it. Refusing to recognise the weight of local and international evidence against such policies is most unwise.
 Download PPTA position statement on National Standards
Download PPTA background paper on National Standards
Trial National Standards, not our kids
NZEI Te Riu Roa is calling for National Standards to be road-tested before being rolled out nationwide — or abandoned altogether.
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(from PPTA News July 2009)
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