Monday, June 25, 2012
Where is New Zealand's Excellence Gap? – Part 2 « Gifted ...
URL: Where is New Zealand's Excellence Gap? – Part 2 « Gifted ...: In a submission to the Inquiry the New Zealand Council for Educational Research argues that: 'Closing the overall gap in student achievement levels in relation to schools serving different socioeconomic communities is a ...
League tables 'shame' - Manawatu Standard
URL: League tables 'shame'
Manawatu Standard
The Education Ministry is working on a report based on National Standards data – which includes numeracy and literacy – from schools. The tables, which are ...
Manawatu Standard
The Education Ministry is working on a report based on National Standards data – which includes numeracy and literacy – from schools. The tables, which are ...
Parata seeks league table agreement - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Parata seeks league table agreement Stuff.co.nz ... NCEA and PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results, Parata said ... unfair because they do not take account of entry achievement levels ... |
Teachers fight 'radical' changes - Southland Times
URL: Teachers fight 'radical' changes
Southland Times
"Teachers want to be paid and recognised for the job they do but they don't want to be paid according to student achievement and national standards," she said.
Southland Times
"Teachers want to be paid and recognised for the job they do but they don't want to be paid according to student achievement and national standards," she said.
Why our teachers have gone two steps too far - Sunday Star Times
 Sunday Star Times | URL: Why our teachers have gone two steps too far Sunday Star Times And this explains why they don't want national standards or the publication of the dreaded "league tables". We might just use that information inappropriately. |
Education wars will intensify with charter schools - The Dominion Post
 The Dominion Post | URL: Education wars will intensify with charter schools The Dominion Post The attacks, justified with the cliched spin of improving student achievement, are essentially ... However, NCEA level 2 is not testing basic literacy and numeracy. |
Market model leaves schools to die - New Zealand Herald
 New Zealand Herald | URL: Market model leaves schools to die New Zealand Herald Class sizes, performance pay, charter schools, national standards, league tables - they're all distractions that suck up time, money and energy while doing ... |
John Roughan: How charter schools may look
URL: John Roughan: How charter schools may look
A small Remuera private school points the way for innovative teaching in low-decile areas too This week I saw a charter school. Mt Hobson Middle School is in Remuera where plenty of parents can afford its $12,000 annual fee and...
A small Remuera private school points the way for innovative teaching in low-decile areas too This week I saw a charter school. Mt Hobson Middle School is in Remuera where plenty of parents can afford its $12,000 annual fee and...
Speech: Science Educaition Dinner - Hon Tariana Turia - Voxy
URL: Speech: Science Educaition Dinner - Hon Tariana Turia
Voxy
... as educators working with the twelve colleges in the Whanganui District Health ... the access and the opportunity for M?ori students to move into health careers ... a choice in career, is something that many of our younger student don't have.
Voxy
... as educators working with the twelve colleges in the Whanganui District Health ... the access and the opportunity for M?ori students to move into health careers ... a choice in career, is something that many of our younger student don't have.
How to pick a school for your children - The Dominion Post
 The Dominion Post | URL: How to pick a school for your children The Dominion Post How educational is a long commute? Some private schools are very good, but private school fees are often better spent on education outside school subject ... |
Minister releases online cultural competency training - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Minister releases online cultural competency training
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The free online training tool – the Foundation Course in Cultural Competency ... “Cultural competence training has been found to be effective in this regard, by providing ... NZ Family Budgeting · NZ Federation of Vocational & Support Services ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The free online training tool – the Foundation Course in Cultural Competency ... “Cultural competence training has been found to be effective in this regard, by providing ... NZ Family Budgeting · NZ Federation of Vocational & Support Services ...
Writing on the wall for illiterate Kiwis - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Writing on the wall for illiterate Kiwis
Stuff.co.nz
The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training says the number of ... Last year 31 per cent of students left school without level 2 NCEA, the ...
Stuff.co.nz
The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training says the number of ... Last year 31 per cent of students left school without level 2 NCEA, the ...
Ministry 'hides test's real purpose' - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Ministry 'hides test's real purpose'
Stuff.co.nz
The Ministry of Health's B4 School Check was thrust in to the spotlight after Australia ... Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education and Research founder ... very high needs children from specialist schools into the general class room.
Stuff.co.nz
The Ministry of Health's B4 School Check was thrust in to the spotlight after Australia ... Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education and Research founder ... very high needs children from specialist schools into the general class room.
Winter Solstice: the Darkest Night in Education
URL: Winter Solstice: the Darkest Night in Education
On the longest night of the year, teachers and students gathered to discuss the darkening of access to and quality of education June 21st, 2012, 4:00pm The Winter Solstice was observed last night by a gathering of students, lecturers, teachers and other ...
On the longest night of the year, teachers and students gathered to discuss the darkening of access to and quality of education June 21st, 2012, 4:00pm The Winter Solstice was observed last night by a gathering of students, lecturers, teachers and other ...
More school-leavers unqualified - SundayNews.co.nz
URL: More school-leavers unqualified
SundayNews.co.nz
The future workforce will need advanced qualifications and technical skills, yet one in five school-leavers doesn't make the grade. Hopes of an economic boom driven by a highly-skilled Kiwi workforce could be dashed by the number of illiterate and innumerate adults..
SundayNews.co.nz
The future workforce will need advanced qualifications and technical skills, yet one in five school-leavers doesn't make the grade. Hopes of an economic boom driven by a highly-skilled Kiwi workforce could be dashed by the number of illiterate and innumerate adults..
Are we raising a nation of dunces?
URL: Are we raising a nation of dunces?
Poor parenting and too many hours in front of the TV are being blamed for a "disturbing" rise in the number of children lacking the basic skills they need when they start school.
Poor parenting and too many hours in front of the TV are being blamed for a "disturbing" rise in the number of children lacking the basic skills they need when they start school.
Nationwide survey to tackle school bullying - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Nationwide survey to tackle school bullying
Stuff.co.nz
With latest figures showing mobile phone use has doubled from 20 to 40 per cent among year nine students and the majority of teens now have internet access, ...
Stuff.co.nz
With latest figures showing mobile phone use has doubled from 20 to 40 per cent among year nine students and the majority of teens now have internet access, ...
Preschoolers tested without parents' knowledge - TVNZ
URL: Preschoolers tested without parents' knowledge
TVNZ
The questionnaire was developed by King's College London Institute of Psychiatry child psychiatrist Dr Robert Goodman. Community Action on Suicide ...
TVNZ
The questionnaire was developed by King's College London Institute of Psychiatry child psychiatrist Dr Robert Goodman. Community Action on Suicide ...
Schools found 'gerrymandering' deciles says US researcher
URL: Schools found 'gerrymandering' deciles says US researcher
An American academic says his studies show some Auckland secondary schools are deliberately manipulating their enrolment zones in order to block children from poor neighbourhoods.
An American academic says his studies show some Auckland secondary schools are deliberately manipulating their enrolment zones in order to block children from poor neighbourhoods.
Researcher says schools use zones to exclude poor children
URL: Researcher says schools use zones to exclude poor children
There are renewed calls for a re-examination of the school decile ranking system after research suggesting that it's not only parents avoiding poor areas but also the schools themselves.
There are renewed calls for a re-examination of the school decile ranking system after research suggesting that it's not only parents avoiding poor areas but also the schools themselves.
Mount Albert Grammar principal on claims of dodgy zoning
URL: Mount Albert Grammar principal on claims of dodgy zoning
An Auckland high school principal is disputing findings by an American academic that some of the city's secondary schools are deliberately skewing their zones to get a higher decile rating.
An Auckland high school principal is disputing findings by an American academic that some of the city's secondary schools are deliberately skewing their zones to get a higher decile rating.
Claim Auckland schools skew zones - New Zealand Herald
 3News NZ | URL: Claim Auckland schools skew zones New Zealand Herald "It suggests that they were drawing school boundaries in a way to exclude students who were more deprived and tended to come from minority backgrounds. |
Sanjit Roy to Speak at ACE Conference - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Sanjit Roy to Speak at ACE Conference
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Press Release – Adult anc community Education ... (ACE) Conference is Community Solutions Ako te Katoa Tuhonohono te Katoa – The Business of Learning.
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Press Release – Adult anc community Education ... (ACE) Conference is Community Solutions Ako te Katoa Tuhonohono te Katoa – The Business of Learning.
No choice but to take Bloods ties - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: No choice but to take Bloods ties Stuff.co.nz As part of a 2011 study on the motivations behind gang membership, clinical psychology student Sarah Campbell interviewed seven young men who had been ... |
Teen duo find apps lucrative - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Teen duo find apps lucrative Stuff.co.nz A pair of Garin College students with a knack for the digital and an eye on the future have made thousands from creating apps, and they are only just getting ... |
Kura kaupapa praised for keeping language alive - Radio New Zealand
URL: Kura kaupapa praised for keeping language alive
Radio New Zealand
A regional kohanga reo manager says the growth of kura kaupapa (Maori language immersion schools) has helped kohanga tamariki to maintain their reo ...
Radio New Zealand
A regional kohanga reo manager says the growth of kura kaupapa (Maori language immersion schools) has helped kohanga tamariki to maintain their reo ...
US psychiatrist: Sex ed failing Kiwi teens
URL: US psychiatrist: Sex ed failing Kiwi teens
Teenagers are being let down by sex education that doesn't tell them it's best to wait until you're an adult and have one sexual partner for life, a visiting physician says.But Family Planning disputes United States psychiatrist...
Teenagers are being let down by sex education that doesn't tell them it's best to wait until you're an adult and have one sexual partner for life, a visiting physician says.But Family Planning disputes United States psychiatrist...
Minister plays press release hide and seek
URL: Minister plays press release hide and seek
It appears Hekia Parata’s communications team had a re-think about who they were sending their press releases to. They decided it was not “in their best interests” to have teacher unions on the mailing list because they tended to respond straight ...
It appears Hekia Parata’s communications team had a re-think about who they were sending their press releases to. They decided it was not “in their best interests” to have teacher unions on the mailing list because they tended to respond straight ...
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