Articles from ‘elocal magazine’ in ‘Education’

Teach, don't Preach...

elocal magazine • Education • 30 Nov 2025

Parents across New Zealand want schools to obey the law, drop the Treaty obsession, and return to their core job of lifting literacy and maths, not trying to run government policy from the classroom. Some teachers, principals, and Boards of Trustees have become so fixated on Treaty politics that they’ve turned classrooms into ideological battlegrounds. This loud faction is driving this trend, pouring time, training hours, and school resources…

Something’s not adding up: A maths breakthrough ignored by a media that prefers bad news

elocal magazine • Education • 27 Nov 2025

NewstalkZB’s Mike Hosking says the country witnessed an extraordinary education result this week, but almost the entirety of NZ’s mainstream media chose not to report it. · He describes watching the Prime Minister and Education Minister announce the findings of a nationwide maths acceleration trial involving 1,500 Year 7 and 8 students who were more than a year behind in maths. Two models were tested. The intensive, in-person support model saw…

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