Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 14, 2017 17:27:09 GMT 12
'LEARNING MĀORI MAKES YOU CLEVER' - SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
A Māori principal has hailed new Māori-language education data as showing that "learning Māori makes you clever".
The new data, produced by Statistics NZ to mark Māori Language Week, shows that unemployed and low-income Māori parents are the most likely to enrol their children in Māori-speaking schools.
Ministry of Education figures already showed that students in Māori-language schools were more likely than other Māori students to leave school with Level 2 of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) - 78 per cent from Māori-medium kura against 62 per cent of Māori students from English-medium schools in 2015....
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A Māori principal has hailed new Māori-language education data as showing that "learning Māori makes you clever".
The new data, produced by Statistics NZ to mark Māori Language Week, shows that unemployed and low-income Māori parents are the most likely to enrol their children in Māori-speaking schools.
Ministry of Education figures already showed that students in Māori-language schools were more likely than other Māori students to leave school with Level 2 of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) - 78 per cent from Māori-medium kura against 62 per cent of Māori students from English-medium schools in 2015....
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