McAuley High School is one of seven schools that draw their students from relatively poor areas that have been visited by the Education Review Office (ERO), in an effort to find out what they are doing well. McAuley High School, an integrated Catholic decile one school for girls in Otahuhu, has seen huge change over Read more
“Maybe they’re putting brain juice in the communion wine. Whatever it is, our results suggest that if New Zealand is going to get serious about the ‘long tail of failure’ in schools, we need to look closely at why Catholic schools are doing so well,” says the editor of Auckland’s Metro Magazine, Simon Wilson. Catholic schools Read more