‘Ineffective, dated and racist’: Teachers vote to end streaming in AotearoaThe Spinoff Daily, Thursday October 6
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“Overall, international studies show that Aotearoa uses ability grouping far more often than most OECD countries. Meanwhile, we also have some of the largest gaps between our highest and lowest achievers. Opposition to destreaming is often based on the fear that higher-achieving students will be unfairly ‘stunted’. But Auckland University education professor Christine Rubie-Davies says evidence shows the opposite appears to be true: those ‘high-achieving’ students in fact gained socially, and did not suffer academically, from being placed in mixed classes.”
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