 3News NZ | URL: Doubt cast on National Standards data 3News NZ Standards and national testing has failed in other countries. The US, UK and Australia have slipped behind NZ with their implementation, whilst Finland has shot ahead, doing what we used to do. We should return fully to the NZC and focus on doing what ... |
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Doubt cast on National Standards data - 3News NZ
Joyce good in theory, Parata poor in practice - Mahuta - Voxy
URL: Joyce good in theory, Parata poor in practice - Mahuta
Voxy
"It's a real disappointment that Steven Joyce and Hekia Parata are singing from a song sheet that does not support all young people. National Standards will create winners and losers in the school system, and that risks seeing more children disengage ...
Voxy
"It's a real disappointment that Steven Joyce and Hekia Parata are singing from a song sheet that does not support all young people. National Standards will create winners and losers in the school system, and that risks seeing more children disengage ...
The rise and fall of Parata - The Dominion Post
URL: The rise and fall of Parata
The Dominion Post
Meanwhile, Tolley's National Standards policy is proving to be another toxic legacy for Parata. To be fair to Parata, the comparisons with her Cabinet colleague Tony Ryall's handling of the Health portfolio are somewhat unfair. National-led governments ...
The Dominion Post
Meanwhile, Tolley's National Standards policy is proving to be another toxic legacy for Parata. To be fair to Parata, the comparisons with her Cabinet colleague Tony Ryall's handling of the Health portfolio are somewhat unfair. National-led governments ...
Can you fix it?: Hard decisions - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Can you fix it?: Hard decisions Stuff.co.nz National standards, performance pay etc are all part of this. • Kids should be employment-ready when they leave education. Secondary and tertiary education should focus on career-relevant training to prepare people for their working life. This ... |
Feeding hungry children will improve learning - Voxy
URL: Feeding hungry children will improve learning
Voxy
NZEI Te Riu Roa National President Ian Leckie says it is extraordinary that the Government cannot find $2.6 million to extend the fruit in schools programme yet is able to spend many times that amount on untried, untested and ropey National Standards.
Voxy
NZEI Te Riu Roa National President Ian Leckie says it is extraordinary that the Government cannot find $2.6 million to extend the fruit in schools programme yet is able to spend many times that amount on untried, untested and ropey National Standards.
Choices for the children - The Nelson Mail
URL: Choices for the children
The Nelson Mail
While the introduction of National Standards means that for state schools, literacy and numeracy are emphasised more than ever, Mr Singh and 120 other families in Golden Bay - plus 100 more in Nelson - want to build a new way of education: Democratic ...
The Nelson Mail
While the introduction of National Standards means that for state schools, literacy and numeracy are emphasised more than ever, Mr Singh and 120 other families in Golden Bay - plus 100 more in Nelson - want to build a new way of education: Democratic ...
Patrick Stokes: You're not entitled to your opinion - New Zealand Herald
URL: Patrick Stokes: You're not entitled to your opinion
New Zealand Herald
Perhaps, but philosophy teachers owe it to our students to teach them how to construct and defend an argument - and to recognise when a belief has become indefensible. The problem with "I'm entitled to my opinion" is that, all too often, it's used to ...
New Zealand Herald
Perhaps, but philosophy teachers owe it to our students to teach them how to construct and defend an argument - and to recognise when a belief has become indefensible. The problem with "I'm entitled to my opinion" is that, all too often, it's used to ...
A special day to take a stance for teachers - The Citizen Daily
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The Citizen Daily
Taking a stand for the teaching profession means providing adequate training, ongoing professional development, and protection for teachers' rights. All over the world, a quality education offers hope and the promise of a better standard of living ...
The Citizen Daily
Taking a stand for the teaching profession means providing adequate training, ongoing professional development, and protection for teachers' rights. All over the world, a quality education offers hope and the promise of a better standard of living ...
Charter schools a 'dangerous experiment' - institute - TVNZ
URL: Charter schools a 'dangerous experiment' - institute
TVNZ
Charter schools are a "dangerous experiment" which have a four in five chance of failing, an educational institute says. Ian Leckie, president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, said there is no evidence that such schools benefit the majority of ...
TVNZ
Charter schools are a "dangerous experiment" which have a four in five chance of failing, an educational institute says. Ian Leckie, president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, said there is no evidence that such schools benefit the majority of ...
Parata's relative plans charter school - TVNZ
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Parata's relative plans charter school TVNZ The school's website reads: "Te Pa O Rakaihautu has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education and is set to play an important role in the rebuild of Christchurch." Questioned by The Press about Te Pa, Parata said she was not involved in the approval ... |
Speech : Closing keynote address to NZAPEP conference - Turia - Voxy
 Voxy | URL: Speech : Closing keynote address to NZAPEP conference - Turia Voxy In short, there has been a virtual festival of learning from exploring the strength of foundation pathways in numeracy and literacy right through to international education and careers bench-marking. The thousand dollar question of course is - what ... |
Education expert backs kohanga policy
URL: Education expert backs kohanga policy
A Maori education expert says Te Kohanga Reo National Trust is right to say pre- school children should not be dividing their time between its kura, and early childhood centres where English is spoken.
A Maori education expert says Te Kohanga Reo National Trust is right to say pre- school children should not be dividing their time between its kura, and early childhood centres where English is spoken.
Culture can bolster child progress - authority - Radio New Zealand
URL: Culture can bolster child progress - authority
Radio New Zealand
Iwi Education Authority (Te Maru o Nga Kura o Aotearoa) executives say a greater emphasis on cultural learning as part of the national curriculum would lead to many children doing better at school. Authority chair Toby Curtis says pupils at many kura ...
Radio New Zealand
Iwi Education Authority (Te Maru o Nga Kura o Aotearoa) executives say a greater emphasis on cultural learning as part of the national curriculum would lead to many children doing better at school. Authority chair Toby Curtis says pupils at many kura ...
Katherine Percy: Industry can do more to help financial literacy - New Zealand Herald
URL: Katherine Percy: Industry can do more to help financial literacy
New Zealand Herald
Around half of New Zealand adults are likely to have literacy and/or numeracy gaps that affect their financial literacy, many highly literate and tertiary educated people also can find it difficult to understand complex and unfamiliar financial ...
New Zealand Herald
Around half of New Zealand adults are likely to have literacy and/or numeracy gaps that affect their financial literacy, many highly literate and tertiary educated people also can find it difficult to understand complex and unfamiliar financial ...
Parata stands by 'low blow' comment - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Parata stands by 'low blow' comment Otago Daily Times Ms Parata was twice off-side with teachers last week, after she allegedly told a conference of first-time principals they were "unprofessional" for failing to read a document about national standards. She later denied making the comment, saying it was ... |
Lesson for teachers in online behaviour - Manawatu Standard
URL: Lesson for teachers in online behaviour
Manawatu Standard
Longtime and now former Hokowhitu School principal Allan Alach stepped down as principal months after he used a blog to criticise the Government's national standards policy and referred to the Education Review Office as "the Gestapo" and the Education ...
Manawatu Standard
Longtime and now former Hokowhitu School principal Allan Alach stepped down as principal months after he used a blog to criticise the Government's national standards policy and referred to the Education Review Office as "the Gestapo" and the Education ...
Ultra-fast internet for rural schools - The Daily Post
URL: Ultra-fast internet for rural schools
The Daily Post
Mr McClay saidthat to date the Ministry of Education's School Network Upgrade Project had upgraded more than a third of eligible state and state-integrated schools in New Zealand. "It's another step along the way to the network for learning, which will ...
The Daily Post
Mr McClay saidthat to date the Ministry of Education's School Network Upgrade Project had upgraded more than a third of eligible state and state-integrated schools in New Zealand. "It's another step along the way to the network for learning, which will ...
Hall of Fame for Pacific educator - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Hall of Fame for Pacific educator
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A senior lecturer in Education at Waikato University is the first Pacific to be nominated and accepted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame based at the University of Oklahama. Dr Timote Vaioleti is Tongan and was ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A senior lecturer in Education at Waikato University is the first Pacific to be nominated and accepted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame based at the University of Oklahama. Dr Timote Vaioleti is Tongan and was ...
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