Project yields gains for New Zealand’s Maori pupils

Like the United States and many other countries around the world, New Zealand has been stymied for decades by achievement gaps between students of different ancestry. In New Zealand’s case, concern centers on students who are Maori. Maori students make up nearly half of all schoolchildren in a nation of 4 million. Yet, compared with their peers of European heritage, most of whom are of British descent, Maori students drop out of school, fail courses, and rack up suspensions at disproportionate rates. Read more in Education Week.