Listen in as Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at Massey University, James Chapman, provides some serious food for thought on the new Common Practice Model and some of the controversial elements of the National Party's education policy.

Our initial reaction to release of Common Practice Model by Ministry of Education.

Read about why we support the teacher strikes.

Give your feedback to the Office of the Auditor-General on how the Ministry of Education uses information to understand and address inequities in education.

New data out from the Ministry of Education NZ showing a further drop in the number of schools participating in Reading Recovery - a failed literacy intervention.

Professor James Chapman on why the Reading Recovery refresh is not good enough.

Read our press release on the Minister’s new Literacy Strategy released 25 March 2022

Read our submission to the Inquiry on ākonga Māori learning support

In this blog post, Professor Emeritus, James Chapman, provides his response to the Report of the Education and Workforce Committee on the Petition of Amanda Drumm: Teach reading in school through explicit and systematic phonics.

We recap over advocacy efforts over the year, including a link to our latest letter to the Associate Minister for Education setting out five key areas that need to be addressed in the Literacy Strategy. We also provide the first iteration of our ‘Report Card’ of the Government’s progress on permanently and efficiently lifting literacy for all.

Find out how structured literacy is an equalizer for students for whom English is not their primary home language.

To implement a structured literacy approach well there are many elements that are going to have to be funded. So how much is this going to cost and how can you fund this? In this blog post we give a high level overview of the costs you need to consider and how you might go about funding those.

In this blog, Professor Emeritus James Chapman sets out the features of good educational research to help you sift the wheat from the chaff when reviewing the findings and claims made in different studies.

Find out more about the similarities between what we are advocating for with literacy education and what The Royal Society Te Apārangi is advocating for mathematics and statistics education.

Read about the findings from our survey of parents and teachers to feed into Select Committee Inquiry on School Attendance and Engagement.

Looking for free evidence-based resources to use at home or in the classroom? Check out our list.

Marianne Brown is a Tier 2 Reading Intervention teacher at Central Normal School. Five years ago, she made the change to structured literacy and writes about her journey here.

Around $26 million of taxpayer funding is spent on Reading Recovery every year. So is this money well spent or are we still holding onto one of the biggest myths in New Zealand education? James Chapman, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at Massey University argues for the latter. Find out why in our latest blog.

Pou Bex Street from Whakarongo School in Palmerston North shares her reflections on using a structured literacy approach over the past year.

James Chapman, Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology at Massey University gives us a potted history of literacy teaching in NZ over the past 40 years to explain how we have ended up in the situation we find ourselves today, adhering to myth and not evidence.