Capturing literacy learners: Evaluating a reading programme using ...

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Yelland, N. (2010). Multiliteracies and learning in a new age. In J. Fletcher, F. Parkhill, & G. Gillon (Eds.). Motivating literacy learners in today's world (pp. 133-146). Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research. ...

SOAPBOX: Be wary of charter schools - Marlborough Express

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Marlborough Express
New Zealand students' average achievement equals or exceeds that of students from other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in core areas such as reading, mathematics and science. Of the 57 countries taking part in ...

Reaching for education stardom - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
National Standards and the newly announced Charter Schools have not lifted student achievement in other countries where they have been in practise for a number of years. In fact, in most cases achievement levels have fallen dramatically in these ...

Guest editorial: What about what students think - Wanganui Chronicle

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Wanganui Chronicle
When we hear about any changes around the structure of our education system, be it National Standards, performance pay for teachers or charter schools, the public seems to very seldom hear from those who will be affected most by those very changes. ...

Principal-hiring review likely - The Southland Times

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The Southland Times
The ministry has come under fire in the past year from teacher unions and schools, including several in Southland, critical of the National Standards policy introduced last year to schools with pupils between years one and eight. ...

Success and the common touch - Otago Daily Times

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URL: Success and the common touch Otago Daily Times Mrs Tolley clashed with teachers and boards over the introduction of National Standards, adopting a dogmatic and often confrontational stance which antagonised more often than it appeased. It is too soon to say how Ms Parata will fare but the immediate ...

Mixed school views on NCEA changes - Timaru Herald

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Timaru Herald
Timaru secondary schools have mixed reactions to changes to NCEA as part of the Ministry of Education's realignment project. The first crop of students to sit exams under the changes are nearing the end of the 2011 NCEA exams. Timaru Boys' High School ...

Sue Moroney calls for answers from Anne Tolley

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Labour's education spokesperson Sue Moroney.

Anne Tolley accused of hiding truth about school adviser

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The former Minister of Education is being accused of concealing the truth about an expert advisor to schools who has been struck off the teachers register for serious misconduct.

Teacher training needed for broadband - Radio New Zealand

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To make full use of what the network offers, it says more teacher training and better technical support will be needed. The trust's chairperson, Laurence Millar, says with the extensive amount of information now instantly available, the teacher's role ...

Fonterra says free milk for Northland primary schools - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Fonterra says free milk for Northland primary schools New Zealand Herald Fonterra partnered with Sanitarium in 2009 to provide free school breakfasts, and nearly half of decile one to four schools served meals to students up to twice a week in that programme. Under a scheme that ran from 1937 to 1967 half a pint of milk was ...

No funding for milk research - Otago Daily Times

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URL: No funding for milk research Otago Daily Times The school milk programme will cover 110 schools and 14000 children and, if successful, it might be extended to a national programme by the start of 2013. Earlier this year, Prof Cox and Dr Mary Jane Sneyd, of the Hugh Adam Cancer Epidemiology Unit, ...

Line drawn from TV to dole - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Line drawn from TV to dole Stuff.co.nz It has been known for some time that increased television-watching is associated with lower educational achievement and lower attentiveness. The study of 1037 children born in Dunedin between 1972 and 1973 showed that of those who watched less than two ...

New Report on ICT in Schools: Schools need faster broadband

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A new report released today by the 2020 Communications Trust reveals that while most schools are ready and eagerly awaiting the roll-out of the government’s ultra-fast broadband initiative, principals believe they will need help in making full use of ...

Push for youth training - Wairarapa Times-Age

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TRAINING: A young man welds a piece of farm machinery at the Otorohanga Trade Training Centre. The YMCA is proposing Masterton copy the successful Otorohanga zero youth waste programme to solve its youth unemployment problem. ...

Apology to missing school girl who wasn't noticed - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The kura says staff will be required to retrain in the appropriate Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) safety procedures. It is understood other schools are also reviewing their EOTC safety procedures in light of the Te Reinga incident. ...

Online students rewarded - Wanganui Chronicle

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Wanganui Chronicle
Most of the school's 4000 full-time primary and secondary students live in urban areas. Chris Scott, a former college principal and correspondence teacher, works from Gonville Cafe Library tutoring teens not enrolled in mainstream education. ...

Girls, 14, face charges over school bullying attack - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
She was repeatedly punched by two girls at Flaxmere College in Hastings three weeks ago. The assault was filmed by another student on a cellphone. Adriana has been in and out of hospital for checks and scans since the attack. Her mother Moana Hawkins ...

Maori urged to forge building careers - The Press

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URL: Maori urged to forge building careers The Press More than 200 Maori had been inducted into the He Toki training programme in the region, with 148 now in the classroom learning nine different trades. "I know from our community of Kaikoura, there's about nine of our kids on courses, ...

New school initiative praised - SunLive

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SunLive
Jason says parents should have the right to send their children to their local school and expect a quality, well-resourced public education. However, Alwyn says the comparison between charter schools and public schools is that charter schools allow the ...

A State School with a Difference - Indian Weekender

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URL: A State School with a Difference Indian Weekender The school has Years 1 to 8 and full New Zealand curriculum is taught under the direction of the Ministry of Education. However, it is unique in several ways. While many schools may offer a second language to the pupils, Hare Krishna school must be the ...

Rotorua student success at national design awards - The Daily Post

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The Daily Post
Six John Paul College students have taken out top individual placings in the National Young Designer Awards this year. In the senior evening wear category, students had to create show-stopping gowns for less than $100. Year 13 student Angela Liu took ...

Year 9 class shows up students - Otago Daily Times

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URL: Year 9 class shows up students Otago Daily Times But beating university film-making students can only be described as "wunderbar". A class of year 9 German language pupils at Columba College not only won the years 7-10 category of the 2011 German Short Film Contest, they won the best film award, ...

Discredited principal employed by ministry - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Discredited principal employed by ministry New Zealand Herald In a decision issued last week, the Teachers' Council said Mr Mutu"favoured" certain students and would buy them presents, allow plagiarism and take them for rides in his car during school hours. He visited one 15-year-old student at her home when he ...

Dream job careers advising - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Dream job careers advising Stuff.co.nz Marlborough Boys' and Marlborough Girls' colleges are decile-seven schools, although their students come from all sectors of the community. If the call to give families more educational choice for their children brought a third school to Blenheim, ...