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Isaac said the report intended to evaluate outcomes not essential to the success of charter schools yet had no plans to measure important aspects like "educational performance results". But on March 18 Parata overruled the ministry and its intentions ...
Parata puts brakes on charter school appraisal
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Seymour: Too soon to judge charter schools
3News NZ
Labour and NZ First are criticising Ms Parata for blocking the survey. They say she knows the results will show charter schools are no better than state schools. There are nine charter schools and the first few opened about a year ago. They're ...
Independent evaluation of Charter Schools needed
Seymour: Too soon to judge charter schools
3News NZ
Labour and NZ First are criticising Ms Parata for blocking the survey. They say she knows the results will show charter schools are no better than state schools. There are nine charter schools and the first few opened about a year ago. They're ...
Independent evaluation of Charter Schools needed
The Education Minister shut down comparing student achievement results from charter schools with those of state schools despite ministry advice to do so.
Concerns over evaluation of charter schools
Concerns were raised about an evaluation of charter schools by the head of the Government-appointed board overseeing the model and former Act Party president Catherine Isaac, documents show.Ms Isaac, a strong supporter of the controversial...
Early childhood education 'threatened' by lack of funding
3News NZ
Karen O'Leary is an active member of the New Zealand education union and head teacher at a community-based centre. She also has her son at the centre she runs. Ms O'Leary told the Paul Henry programme this morning the problems highlighted in the ...
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Call for more investment in childcare quality
Stuff.co.nz
The focus for early childhood education should be quality, not high participation, sector representatives say. ... New Zealand Educational Institute early childhood representative Virginia Oakly said the report endorsed what the union had been saying ...
Editorial: Early childhood disquiet a wake-up call
Karen O'Leary is an active member of the New Zealand education union and head teacher at a community-based centre. She also has her son at the centre she runs. Ms O'Leary told the Paul Henry programme this morning the problems highlighted in the ...
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Call for more investment in childcare quality
Stuff.co.nz
The focus for early childhood education should be quality, not high participation, sector representatives say. ... New Zealand Educational Institute early childhood representative Virginia Oakly said the report endorsed what the union had been saying ...
Editorial: Early childhood disquiet a wake-up call
New Zealand's early childhood education system came under friendly fire this week as a survey found up to a quarter of teachers in the sector would not enrol their own children in it.
Study Reveals Parents' Perceptions of New Zealand Education Education aspirations equal success for New Zealand children ASG Parents Report Card reveals parents’ perceptions of state of education in New Zealand The aspirations New Zealand parents ...
Parents feel the squeeze from school funding shortfall
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Parents are being forced to shell out more and more for their kids' education as government underfunding really starts to bite, Labour's Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. “A survey released today confirmed what we already know, the vast ...
Growing price of a 'free' education
Half of middle-income parents believe they don't have enough money for their children's schooling, as experts warn of the growing costs of modern education going unmet by the state.The survey, from an inaugural ASG Parents Report..
Child education a struggle for poor families
"Parents hold incredibly important, often intangible, resources in contributing to their child's educational success," ASG chief executive John Velegrinis said. "The ASG Parents Report Card has found that parental aspirations for their children's ...
New digital education 'clicks' with Māori
Radio New Zealand
The teaching style is called 'Manaiakalani' and has been adopted by 12 schools, including a Kura Kaupapa Māori, that said it had transformed their students' learning. The kaupapa of the IT-based learning programme, Manaiakalani, is 'Learn, Create, Share'.
Parents' aspirations key driver in children's academic success: study
Stuff.co.nz
Monash University Faculty of Education associate professor Dr Shane Phillipson said while parents thought they did not have enough financial resources, at the end of the day the key to educational success was parents' aspirations, not how much money ...
How your school can manage student and teacher data
Schools must develop efficient policies around how student and teacher data is managed, according to the Ministry of Education, who is offering advice on how schools can go about simplifying and automating tasks for running schools, and sharing data ...
New teaching resource to help support diversity
Parents feel the squeeze from school funding shortfall
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Parents are being forced to shell out more and more for their kids' education as government underfunding really starts to bite, Labour's Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. “A survey released today confirmed what we already know, the vast ...
Growing price of a 'free' education
Half of middle-income parents believe they don't have enough money for their children's schooling, as experts warn of the growing costs of modern education going unmet by the state.The survey, from an inaugural ASG Parents Report..
Child education a struggle for poor families
"Parents hold incredibly important, often intangible, resources in contributing to their child's educational success," ASG chief executive John Velegrinis said. "The ASG Parents Report Card has found that parental aspirations for their children's ...
New digital education 'clicks' with Māori
Radio New Zealand
The teaching style is called 'Manaiakalani' and has been adopted by 12 schools, including a Kura Kaupapa Māori, that said it had transformed their students' learning. The kaupapa of the IT-based learning programme, Manaiakalani, is 'Learn, Create, Share'.
Parents' aspirations key driver in children's academic success: study
Stuff.co.nz
Monash University Faculty of Education associate professor Dr Shane Phillipson said while parents thought they did not have enough financial resources, at the end of the day the key to educational success was parents' aspirations, not how much money ...
How your school can manage student and teacher data
Schools must develop efficient policies around how student and teacher data is managed, according to the Ministry of Education, who is offering advice on how schools can go about simplifying and automating tasks for running schools, and sharing data ...
New teaching resource to help support diversity
Inside Out, a video-based teaching resource created in partnership by University of Auckland’s Dr John Fenaughty, Curative, and RainbowYOUTH, is set to be launched to the Wellington community at Parliament on Tuesday October 13th. The free classroom ...
Where Have the Government's Education Millions Gone?
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Revamps of the Resource Teacher Learning and Behaviour scheme and truancy programmes, the PACT tool and selling National Standards to parents? “New Zealanders' long held belief that their children are entitled to a free education, no matter how much ..
Speech: Adult Illiteracy Costs Us
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Several years ago the World Literacy Foundation estimated that the Economic and Social Cost of Illiteracy to New Zealand was a staggeringNZ$3 billion a year. A 2008 study found ... That was false as funding for hundreds of adult learners was summarily ...
Lifelong Learning Key to Wellbeing
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Henley Men's Shed in Masterton will host the launch of this year's Adult Learners' Week/He Tangata Mātauranga, September 7-13. The custom built shed is set up for older men to participate in a range of activities from metalwork, woodwork and gardening ...
Aro Valley's radical educational experiment - 150 Years of News
By then Matauranga had a waiting list with parents in the Hutt Valley, Auckland and Christchurch either setting up or planning similar schools buoyed by the Playcentre philosophy of parent-run preschool education and learning through play.
Next generation will need to work until 100 at 40 different jobs, expert says
Think your little ones will have a better life than you, like your own parents probably thought about you? Think again.
Decision on Blenheim colleges not far away
A decision on the future of Blenheim's two colleges is expected by the end of the year, the Ministry of Education says.
Where Have the Government's Education Millions Gone?
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Revamps of the Resource Teacher Learning and Behaviour scheme and truancy programmes, the PACT tool and selling National Standards to parents? “New Zealanders' long held belief that their children are entitled to a free education, no matter how much ..
Speech: Adult Illiteracy Costs Us
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Several years ago the World Literacy Foundation estimated that the Economic and Social Cost of Illiteracy to New Zealand was a staggeringNZ$3 billion a year. A 2008 study found ... That was false as funding for hundreds of adult learners was summarily ...
Lifelong Learning Key to Wellbeing
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Henley Men's Shed in Masterton will host the launch of this year's Adult Learners' Week/He Tangata Mātauranga, September 7-13. The custom built shed is set up for older men to participate in a range of activities from metalwork, woodwork and gardening ...
Aro Valley's radical educational experiment - 150 Years of News
By then Matauranga had a waiting list with parents in the Hutt Valley, Auckland and Christchurch either setting up or planning similar schools buoyed by the Playcentre philosophy of parent-run preschool education and learning through play.
Next generation will need to work until 100 at 40 different jobs, expert says
Think your little ones will have a better life than you, like your own parents probably thought about you? Think again.
Decision on Blenheim colleges not far away
A decision on the future of Blenheim's two colleges is expected by the end of the year, the Ministry of Education says.
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