http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/middle-school-3-52-video-3564927
(the video runs for about 3 mins - sorry you have to suffer an advert at the start but hang in there :-) )
Pippa interviewed St Margaret's school principal Gillian Simpson this morning about changes they are making to stop those in Year 10 wasting their year...ahhh the memories of fourth form come flooding back!  There are some great ideas in here but I was STUNNED mostly by the fact that Pippa interrupts the principal before she gets all three of the 'R's out  - this is what teachers are dealing with, many young people have the attention span of a gnat as today's technology conditions us to receiving information in sharp, small bites.  I suspect it's why 'small amounts often' is well received by kids when you try to teach them.
PS:  If you too can't concentrate for long - just go to around the one minute mark of the vid to see the interruption! ;-)