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Collaboration not competition drives educational success

Published: Fri 17 Feb 2017 02:20 PM
Collaboration not competition drives educational success
17 February 2017
Naming and shaming schools and then pitting them against each other in a competitive, profit-driven environment is a failed recipe for improving education, NZEI Te Riu Roa says.
NZEI President Lynda Stuart says the NZ Initiative's recommendations for addressing school failure, released today, were fundamentally flawed.
“Working collaboratively between and within schools for the benefit of children makes a difference – not pitting schools against schools and teachers against teachers with the threat of being turned into charter schools or or sacked if they don’t meet a set target,” she said.
“What we need is better equity funding to supported disadvantaged children, strong and open collaboration, and better support for principals, as highlighted in our recent health and wellbeing survey.”
The NZ Institute's report compares our schools unfavourably against the charter-dominated school systems in the US and UK, even though our system is performing far more successfully overall.
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NZEI
New Zealand Educational Institute
NZEI Te Riu Roa members work in every community in New Zealand, leading and advocating for quality public education.
We are the 50,000 principals, teachers and support staff who work in primary, area and secondary schools as well as early childhood centres, special education and school advisory services. We come together as NZEI Te Riu Roa - New Zealand's largest education union, a Treaty based organisation and a powerful advocate for quality public education.
We have the most important job in New Zealand - educating for the future.
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