An educator pushing for the end of streaming in schools says while putting kids in classes with “does seem a little bit intuitive”, it results in worse educational outcomes overall.<\/p>\n
And those most put at a disadvantage are M\u0101ori, Pasifika and children from lower-socioeconomic backgrounds.<\/p>\n
“Kids who are put in the lower levels are taught lower-level things, and have slower progress,” Dr David Pomeroy, senior lecturer in teacher education at the University of Canterbury and an ex-secondary school teacher, told RNZ on Monday.<\/p>\n
More than 80 percent of schools in New Zealand use streaming in some form –\u00a0the third-highest rate in the OECD<\/a>. Last year both the Post Primary Teachers’ Association and its primary school equivalent, NZEI Te Riu Roa,\u00a0said they wanted it gone<\/a>.<\/p>\n In an April 2021 briefing to then-Minister of Education Chris Hipkins and his successor Jan Tinetti, the Ministry of Education said the “evidence shows that streaming contributes to inequitable outcomes, especially for M\u0101ori learners, Pacific learners and learners with disabilities and\/or learning support needs”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n source rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An educator pushing for the end of streaming in schools says while putting kids in classes with “does seem a little bit intuitive”, it results in worse educational outcomes overall. And those most put at a disadvantage are M\u0101ori, Pasifika and children from lower-socioeconomic backgrounds. “Kids who are put in the lower levels are taught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}