24 Mar 2022

Call for school streaming to be scrapped

From Lately, 10:30 pm on 24 March 2022

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Streaming of students in New Zealand schools has been common, but calls are growing for it to be tossed out. The ministry of education is already looking at "moving away" from streaming in the face of strong criticism. New research by Māori Futures Collective Tokona Te Raki says it needs to be removed entirely as it disadvantages Māori and increases "learners' sense of low self-worth and low self-esteem. 

Hinepounamu Apanui-Barr is a Rangatahi Researcher at Tokona te Raki: Māori Futures Collective. 

View of large exam room hall and examination desks tables lined up in rows ready for students at a high school to come and sit their exams tests papers.

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