There is a rot at the core of schooling in New Zealand.
The Ministry of Education follows unscientific advice and is in thrall to a flawed philosophy.
Briar Lipson's book 'New Zealand’s Education Delusion: How bad ideas ruined a once world-leading school system' explains our nation’s dangerous experiment in child-centred orthodoxy.
The test results are in: inequity levels are awful and educational standards are plummeting.
The book explores the origins of child-centred ideas and their unchecked influence on policy. It contrasts the consensus from cognitive science with what teachers are told by ‘researchers’ and ‘authorities.’
Finally, it outlines how to reverse our woefully declining standards and narrow the inequities that so perplex and embarrass this country.