Fight bad info with good info
I’ve often said in the debate about league tables that the solution is not to ban the media from obtaining school achievement data under the Official Information Act, or even more ridiculously not...
View ArticleHealth League Tables
The Herald reports: League tables showing which primary health organisations (PHOs) are doing best – and worst – at meeting community health needs have been released by the Ministry of Health for the...
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Editorials 16 March 2010
The Herald looks at the Iraqi elections: Iraq’s national elections were some distance removed from the type of poll associated with a smoothly functioning democracy. They were conducted amid an...
View ArticleUK to get better league tables
The Telegraph reports: Parents will get powers to rank local schools using a series of new-style measures under Government plans to stop schools massaging their results. They will be able to sort...
View ArticleLabour’s national standard policy
Sue Moroney announced for Labour: Labour will require schools to use recognised assessment tools and teacher judgement to: 1. Determine the New Zealand Curriculum level a child is achieving. Sounds...
View ArticleA schools database
John Hartevelt at Stuff reports: The Government appears set on publishing primary school performance data, criticised by a teacher union as “junk information”. Education Minister Hekia Parata yesterday...
View ArticleSchool League Tables
Stuff reports: Prime Minister John Key has signalled his support for a form of league tables for primary and intermediate schools. Unions argued that rankings of school performances was inevitable once...
View ArticleAn independent expert
The Herald proclaims: An expert on school league tables says introducing the system here would lead to schools narrowing their teaching focus, competing for the “best” students and rejecting those who...
View ArticleThe Press on league tables
The Press reports: There is a tinge of alarmism, even something slightly hysterical, in the opposition of the education establishment to the publication of the performance of primary schools as...
View ArticleKelvin Davis on Education
Former Labour MP and principal Kelvin Davis blogs at Maui Street: When the government says that national standards, charter schools, league tables, performance pay, quality vs quantity of teachers will...
View ArticleDoes NZEI want to ban calorie labels?
Audrey Young at NZ Herald reports: Almost 59 per cent of DigiPoll respondents approve of publishing of the material, either by the Ministry of Education or the media or both. But 36.4 per cent believe...
View ArticleLumley on League Tables
Thomas Lumley at Stats Chat blogs: League tables work well in sports. The way the competition is defined means that ‘games won’ really is the dominant factor in ordering teams, it matters who is at...
View ArticleAuckland school
Marika Hill at Stuff reports: Auckland’s Catholic schools ruled in Metro magazine’s annual school league tables, but an education expert has warned parents the rankings are too “crude” to take...
View ArticleWiggs on League Tables
Lance Wiggs blogs: A group of academics signed off on a letter against school league tables. The stated logic may work in an academic research setting but is inappropriate to apply to the real world....
View ArticleOmbudsman tells schools to release the data
Stuff reports: Schools have been told to disregard the advice of a primary teachers’ union and instead release controversial National Standards performance information. Chief Ombudsman Dame Beverley...
View ArticleHerald on school data
The Herald editorial: According to Waikato University education professor Martin Thrupp, schools will use tricks to portray themselves in the best possible light in National Standards results that will...
View ArticleIs this the real agenda?
Nanaia Mahuta blogged: I asked a question in the House yesterday on the Government’s quest to embed National Standards based on ‘ropey’ data. I received criticism that Labour’s position on National...
View ArticleLabour supports league tables
Isaac Davison at NZ Herald reports: Taxpayer-funded prisons should be ranked in league tables so the performance of private and public prisons can be accurately compared, the Labour Party says. I...
View ArticleThe prison league table
Anne Tolley has released what is effectively a league table of our 17 prisons. It’s great to have such transparency on how our prisons are doing on various criteria. All 17 prisons are now measured on...
View Article2014 NZ Council Financial Sustainability League Table
Larry Mitchell has published his 2014 Council Financial Sustainability League Table. The key summary from his analysis is: Best in Class Clutha District Council Southland District Council and...
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