Reading Recovery for all schools
David SHEARER
Labour
Leader
09
September
2012
MEDIA
STATEMENT
Reading Recovery for all
schools
The Labour Party is committing to
roll out Reading Recovery to all schools.
Currently
only two out of three schools offer the New
Zealand-developed scheme, which has an 80 per cent success
rate of lifting kids who fall behind in reading. Just 59 per
cent of low decile schools have Reading
Recovery.
“Reading Recovery is the gold-standard
intervention to help kids that are struggling to learn to
read. It is a proven success, and should be available to
every child who needs it,” says David
Shearer.
The Labour Leader is this afternoon
announcing some of Labour’s plans for education in a
speech in west Auckland.
“The National Government
has poured all its effort - and $36-million of taxpayers’
money - into National Standards and league tables designed
to measure how our kids are doing. But they have no plan
to actually help improve children’s learning. Labour
does.
“Children who don’t learn to read are
generally the ones who fall through the cracks and
subsequently drop out of school. We can help those children,
and we should.
“Having Reading Recovery in every
school will mean all our kids will have the best chance to
make the most of their education.
“Labour will
also investigate developing a maths recovery
programme.
“In today’s world a kid with no
skills is a kid with no future. Education is critical to
building a modern, 21st century
economy.
“Labour’s commitment is to build the
world’s best education system. Our children deserve
nothing less,” says David
Shearer.
ENDS