Relevant Reports and Research

2002 Reith Lectures. Baroness Onora O’Neill (UK)

Lecture 1: Spreading Suspicion

Lecture 2: Trust and Terror

Lecture 3: Called to Account

Lecture 4: Trust and Transparency

Lecture 5: Licence to Deceive

Whither Accountability? Working Paper No.18 - State Services Commission, 2003. (NZ)

Economics

The economics of happiness: Building genuine wealth (Anielski, 2007)

The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. (Wilson & Pickett, 2009)

Working Towards Higher Living Standards for New Zealanders. (NZ Treasury, May 2011)

Economic Leadership: When Business Isn't Usual. Speech by Gabriel Makhlouf. (NZ Treasury. Mar 2012.)

Treasury’s Advice on Lifting Student Achievement in New Zealand: Evidence Brief. (NZ Treasury, Mar 2012.)

Article on Education by Secretary to the Treasury, Gabriel Makhlouf. 27 Mar 2012

Finance and funding

How do Effective Schools Manage Their Finances (NZ Council for Educational Research, 2004)

An Increasing tightness – pressure points for schools’ financial management. (NZ Council for Educational Research,
2005)

School Funding Study: Update. (NZ Council for Educational Research, 2006) (Not available online)

Review of Schools' Operational Funding (Ministry of Education, 2006) (Not available online)

Schools’ Use of Operational Funding (ERO, 2006) (Not available online)

Schools’ Use of Operational Funding: Case Studies (ERO, June 2007)

Schools’ Use of Operational Funding (ERO, 2008)

Pilot Survey of School Finances (Polson Higgs, 2008) (Not available online)

Future of Education

Changing Education paradigms (TED talks - YouTube video)

An extremely good animation of a talk by Sir Ted Robinson about the way various countries are trying to change
education from 19th-century to 21st-century ways of thinking.

Experiments in self-teaching (TED talks - YouTube video)

Professor Sugata Mitra has conducted a series of experiments to see how far children with no formal education can
teach themselves from a computer with no adult intervention. The results are astounding.

Governance and leadership

School Governance: Board of Trustees Stocktake (NZ School Trustees Association, 2008) (pdf) (Members only)

Reports from the Crombie Lockwood - Vero Scholarships

New Zealand Country Report on Improving School Leadership (OECD, 2007) (pdf)

University of Bath research papers

The School Governance study (Balarin, 2008)

The "hidden givers": a study of school governing bodies in England (James, 2010)

The Lighthouse Study - Iowa Association of School Boards (IASB)

The Lighthouse Inquiry (IASB)(pdf)

Do some school boards create higher student achievement than others? The results of a groundbreaking research
study, the Lighthouse Inquiry, by the Iowa Association of School Boards indicate that school boards in high-achieving
districts are significantly different in their knowledge and beliefs than school boards in low-achieving districts. And, this
difference appears to carry through among administrators and teachers throughout the districts.

Lighthouse Inquiry Summary (IASB)

Education Review Office (NZ)

Framework for School Reviews (ERO, 2010)
The Framework for School Reviews was first published in 2002. This 2011 version reflects new review methodology,
and aligns with the government’s new directions for the future. It complements ERO’s Evaluation Indicators for School
Reviews

Evaluation Indicators for School Reviews (ERO, 2011)
The Education Review Office independently evaluates the quality of education in schools and early childhood services
and reports on these publicly. Evaluation indicators are a tool used to inform the judgements that ERO review officers
make when conducting these evaluations.

Human Rights

United Nations Convention on the rights of the child (UNCROC) Fact Sheet.
This is a 4-page summary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, without all the legal language. Provided by
UNICEF.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The full English language text of the Declaration.

Human Rights Commission reports

Disabled Children’s Right to Education (2009)

School violence, bullying and abuse – a human rights analysis (2009) (pdf)

Structural Discrimination: a fair go for all? (2011)
See pages 28-33 for structural discrimination in education.

International comparisons

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

PISA 2009 at a Glance (OECD, 2010)
Every three years PISA surveys 15-year-olds in the principal industrialised countries, and assesses how far students
have acquired knowledge and skills considered essential for full participation in society.

McKinsey & Co

How the world's best-performing school systems come out on top (2007)

How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better (2010)

New Zealand schools

NZ Council for Educational Research (NZCER)

NZCER Research reports

NZCER National Surveys

National Standards - Thinking wider about sources of evidence (NZCER, 2010) - Members only

Ministry of Education

2012 Briefing for Incoming Minister

Commerce Commission

Paper on schools’ use of ultra-fast broadband (UFB)

Reforming Education

New Zealand (Tomorrow’s Schools /“Picot Report" 1988-89

Australia (“Gonski Report”. Review of Funding for Schooling.) 2011.

Student Achievement

Cumulative and residual effects of teachers on future student academic achievement. (W. Sanders & J Rivers, 1996)

Student Perspectives

Whakarongo mai - Stories from the inside (1.8 MB)

Political party education reports

Real Education Project report (pdf) (Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2011 )

Step Change: Success the only Option (pdf) Report of the Inter-Party Working Group for School Choice
(ACT, National & Māori Party, 2010)

Free to Learn : A report on policy options relating to the funding and regulation of schools that will increase
parental choice and school autonomy in New Zealand. (pdf) (ACT, 2010)