CORE Education June Newsletter: Tips, Tools, News & Inspiration ...

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Both researchers for the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Rosemary and Sue led participants through the Key Competencies Indicators Project and addressed issues for keeping the New Zealand Curriculum ...

NCEA poll | curiablog

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In a survey by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 54 per cent of parents said they supported the framework. “It's the first time parental support has risen above 50 per cent in the survey series and it was higher ...

Immersion sector asking for charter trial - waateanews.com

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Dr Sharples says the Kura Kaupapa Rūnanga along with Kohanga Reo board members and iwi leaders are asking for the trial. "When we started kura a lot of people were against us. We got death threats even. A lot of Māori said it won't work and you can't ...

Charter schools offer power - Stuff.co.nz

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OPINION: This week Partnership Schools passed their final legislative hurdle. It comes at the same time as an OECD Economic Survey that praises our educational achievement, but warns of the "long tail of underachievement". Of course, that long tail of ...

Maori wellbeing programme popular - Southland Times

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Southland Times
Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu Charitable Trust Manawa Ora co-ordinator Makuini McKerchar, who organised the training, said the course was delivered to representatives from nga kohanga reo, marae, sport, health and social agencies, which would help ...

Anger over scale down of pupils' test results

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Children's marks in National Standards will be artificially lowered this year because last year's assessment was too easy.The change has infuriated some schools, who say the Ministry of Education should have corrected the tests...

National Standards changes will warp data

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Education Ministry changes to National Standards data will result in discrepancies between this year's data and next year's, leading to fears parents will think their children are underperforming.The ministry has scaled down term...

Tampered data further knocks confidence - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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National Standards data due to be released next week (June 10) will be even more unreliable than last year's, because of changes to an assessment tool used to inform teachers' judgements about children's writing, says NZEI Te Riu Roa. The Ministry of ...

Misbehaving pupils face internet ban - Stuff.co.nz

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Palmerston North Girls' High School students are being asked to commit to new online behaviour guidelines as schools around Manawatu step up efforts to crack down on cyber bullying. The school is encouraging its pupils to be "good digital citizens" by ...

TV host to Parata: 'How Maori are you?' - Otago Daily Times

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URL: TV host to Parata: 'How Maori are you?' Otago Daily Times Still not ok, as Hekia is education minister, so who cares if she is Maori or not. Not a smart question really." TV3 director of news and current affairs Mark Jennings said they were reasonable questions asked by one of the organisation's most senior ...