Native Schools News Today

Variously practiced as ‘ability grouping’, ‘streaming’, ‘attainment grouping’, ‘setting’, ‘banding’ or ‘tracking’, pedagogical practices that group students based on perceived ability or prior achievement are longstanding and widespread world over. Research, however, has long shown that this has negative impacts for students, especially those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, ethnic minorities, and Indigenous populations.

What led to the signing of the most important document in New Zealands history? It’s known as the “birthplace of our nation”, but more than half of Kiwis have never visited the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, new research shows. For younger New Zealanders, the visit rate is even lower: Just 33 per cent of under 40s who responded to a nationwide survey of 1000 Kiwi adults released by the Waitangi National Trust this February said they have visited the grounds. Supplied The Waitangi Treaty Grou...