Lifting educational achievement through increased early childhood education participation

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Education Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed new provisional figures which show an increase in the number of children participating in early childhood education, particularly Māori and Pacific Island children. Provisional data for the first quarter of 2013 shows around 95.5 per cent of children that started school this year had participated in early childhood education. That’s up from 94.7 per cent at the same time last year. The provisional data also shows increases in participation rates for Māori and Pasifika children...

Lifting educational achievement - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Education Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed new provisional figures which show an increase in the number of children participating in early childhood education, particularly Māori and Pacific Island children. Provisional data for the first quarter of ...

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Lifting educational achievement through increased early childhood education participation. Education Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed new provisional figures which show an increase in the number of children ...

Enrichment or acceleration or both? How to best provide for gifted ...

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John Hattie's 2009 synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to educational achievement, found that acceleration, in these forms, had the highest school contribution to student achievement; enrichment – the method currently most preferred by schools - did not even reach Hattie's 'hinge .... Perhaps because I started NCEA Level 1 exams in Year 10, I have more experience under exam conditions and have found a way to cope under pressure earlier than most.” ...

Teachers plan protest street march - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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URL: Teachers plan protest street march Auckland stuff.co.nz Ms Mey says the quality of public education is in danger of being eroded by the introduction of charter schools, National Standards and GERM - the Global Education Reform Movement. She says the ... See standupforkids. org.nz for information. Ad ...

Three schools close . . . how many more? - Gisborne Herald

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Parents at a school board of trustees meeting last week said they did not want their children enrolled in mainstream schools because they feared for their safety and social development. “The parents voiced their concerns and wanted to know their ...

Tidy Kiwis: Primary Schools Gear up for School Milk - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Tidy Kiwis: Primary Schools Gear up for School Milk. Hundreds of blue recycling bins are heading to the South Island to be delivered to schools joining the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme. Almost 3000 recycling bins have been made so far by New ...

Key urges kids to learn Mandarin

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Prime Minister John Key wants more students to consider learning Mandarin.And a Herald -DigiPoll survey shows a surprisingly high number of people, more that 25 per cent, would like Maori and a foreign language to be compulsory...

Talent2 privacy breach: Schools sent wrong emails

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The company behind the flawed Novopay system has sent a number of schools the wrong emails about yet-to-be-processed actions regarding their payrolls.The Acting Secretary for Education, Peter Hughes, blamed human error for the privacy...

Allyson Gofton: Do the maths - NZ strategy wrong

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We are in France for a year for our children to learn at a village school and to have an adventure.Our son Jean-Luc is now 10, so last year he was in Year 5 at a small, local Decile 9 Catholic primary school in New Zealand. Warwick...

'Human error' behind Novopay breach - Stuff.co.nz

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"In simple terms, the pay administrators at these schools have received the names and Ministry of Education numbers for staff at another school, instead of their own, along with the transaction number for the outstanding issue," Hughes said. "I treat ...