The National Party believes it's on to an electoral winner with the first of what Christopher Luxon says will be a series of educational policies that are not about "left or right, but about going forwards instead of backwards".
The party has unveiled the details of their plan to improve literacy and numeracy in the primary school curriculum.
Pupils would, for example, need to spend an hour a day on average on reading, writing and maths.
Critics say it all sounds like a return to the National Standards of the last National-led government.
National Party education spokesperson Erica Stanford spoke to Corin Dann.
