The NZ Herald analyzes University Entrance and NCEA Level 3 results across all New Zealand high schools to assess academic performance trends at the start of the 2026 school year.
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Well, the direction of travel here is definitely world leading because under your education minister, Erica Stanford's direction, schools in New Zealand are teaching children explicitly, applying the best possible evidence and moving away from approaches that whilst they had strong face appeal and they've been been somewhat kind of welded into teacher pre-service education, that's another story, but approaches that have been used have been not high impact for the majority of students, so it's not enough to get some students succeeding with reading, writing and spelling and academic success, we need to be using approaches that get the overwhelming majority, 19 to 95.
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driving a national shift in literacy pedagogy with strong evidence
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