<h4 class="header" style="text-align: left;">Principals across New Zealand have roundly rejected the &#8216;Progress and Consistency Tool&#8217; (PaCT) designed to improve the reliability of national standards, and say that the Ministry of Education announcement about a special website to promote the tool is wasted resource.</h4>
<div class="header" style="text-align: left;">&#8220;It is no secret that the national standards are a flawed measure of achievement,&#8221; said Whetu Cormick, president of the New Zealand Principals&#8217; Federation (NZPF). &#8220;It makes no logical sense to then try and make a flawed measure reliable.&#8221;</div>
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<div class="content" style="text-align: left;">&#8220;What our young people and their parents want is to see progress across all subjects in the curriculum. Our priority and struggling learners especially need authentic contexts and a broad range of learning <a class="wpil_keyword_link" href="https://www.schoolnews.co.nz/2015/10/developing-opportunities-at-school-with-a-view/" title="opportunities" data-wpil-keyword-link="linked" target="_blank">opportunities</a>,&#8217; he said.</div>
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<div class="content" style="text-align: left;">&#8220;What we don&#8217;t want to do is get bogged down in micro-analysis of the three R&#8217;s (reading writing and maths), and neglect the very curriculum subjects that can empower, challenge and motivate our young learners. New Zealand has a world-class curriculum and the parents in our school communities expect their children to have full access to it at all times.&#8221;</div>
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<div class="content" style="text-align: left;">The demonstration site is a reproduction of the live version of the PaCT, but has been populated with mock student information.</div>

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