Mandated testing hurts our education system

Mandated testing hurts our education system

This blog post was originally published in the New Zealand Herald. You can read it here. Education Minister Erica Stanford has announced the government’s plans for standardised assessments in primary schools. Starting in 2026 all schools will have to use either the...
All that gets lost in our conversation around Pisa results.

All that gets lost in our conversation around Pisa results.

This piece by Tom Pearce was originally published in The Post and The Press. Every three years the OECD carries out reading, maths and science tests on 15-year-olds around the world, known as the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). The 2022 results...