Since December 2023, Aotearoa New Zealand has seen an unprecedented concentration, use and assertion of ministerial power, as well as a growing influence of private voices in the curriculum development process. Alongside this, there has been a sidelining of sector voice and Māori input.

I have written on this extensively since mid-2024. All my work is based on OIA documents or publicly available material.

Investigative Reports

Long read articles based on OIA material.

• Curriculum Overreach: How a special interest group took over the refresh of the New Zealand curriculum

• 15 March: Evidence of MAG and Ministerial Overreach?

• The Procurement of Maths Textbooks

• Democraric Whimper: Aotearoa New Zealand's curriculum reform and competative authoritarianism

• Recapturing the Senior English Curriculum

• School Shorts, Stanford's Office, and the Necessity of Parent Persuasion

Commentary

Essays covering the democratic, Treaty of Waitangi and curriculum implications of the curriculum change process.

• A Subject Worthy of Study: Enriching the rewritten English curriculum's glossary

• The Democratic Price We're Paying By Shrugging Our Shoulders at the Curriculum Change Takeover

• The Hidden Cost: Removing Te Tiriti harms every child

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Investigative Spotlights

Check out the blog for findings on the fly, zeroing in or spotlighting something significant in the evidence.

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Evidence

Search through responses to Parliamentary Written Questions and OIA documents

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Education Essays

Ruminative, observational, suggestive and philosophical pieces about education.

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General Writing

Experiments in poetry, prose and essays. Education-free.

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