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The Education Ministry says the English and maths curriculums introduced by primary schools this year have had a bigger impact than expected.
Appearing before Parliament's Education and Workforce Select Committee, the ministry's chief executive, Ellen MacGregor-Reid, said she was thrilled for children.
"The results have exceeded my expectations. We'd been working for some time on structured literacy as an approach, we'd identified for some time we had issues in mathematics teaching.
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