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Posted by: Cynic on Jan 21, 2010

Tagged in: students , schools , NCEA , Maori achievement , language , kura kaupapa

Surface readings

Today my head hurts from trying to follow up on a NZ Herald story that quotes from the Unesco report Reaching the marginalised (Education For All global monitoring report 2010):

year 11 Maori students enrolled in kura kaupapa immersion schools did significantly better than Maori in English-language schools (p.206)

so I tried to follow up. I looked at Nga Haeata Matauranga (the Annual Reports on Maori Education)

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