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Editorial: Prizes have their place in schools
EDITORIAL: Schools should not give up prizegivings.
Education unions agree to unite in campaign for more investment
Primary and secondary education unions are joining forces in their push for better pay.
Use of 'trivial' in exam stumps senior students
Level 3 history students won't be marked down for not knowing what trivial meant.
Wellington primary school teachers and principals marching through the central city
Wellington primary school teachers and principals marching through the central city as a week of rolling strikes across the country comes to a close.
School prizegiving debate: Kiwis divided over rewarding kids
The principal's choice sparked a nationwide conversation around the staple of schooling.
Psychologist on how prize-giving at schools can affect children
Psychologist on how prize-giving at schools can affect children. / Newstalk ZB
Primary school cancels prizegiving: 'Schools are not about ranking and sorting'
The school cancelled its prizegiving to improve intrinsic motivation and abolish ranking.
School driving scheme may teach parents too
At least half of parents of students at William Colenso College don't have licences.
International students add $50m to Northland
The research shows 590 jobs are also supported as a result.
Urgent review called for: Serious concern over preschool checks
The Before School Check is offered to every child after they turn four.
Crucial part of geography exam missing
A rushed colour print of more than 500 pages, 1100 sides, costs school $500.
Schools paying for teacher registration renewals
Paying for teacher registration would show 'considerable goodwill', AGS head says.
Struggling to learn: Understanding kids' different brains is 'like coming out of the fog'
Teachers say understanding kids' brains is 'like coming out of the fog'.
How Pembroke School caters to one of their autistic students
Pembroke School principal Junior Togia talks about how they cater to one of their autistic students.
NCEA injustice: Poor schools not getting reader-writer help
A third of NCEA students at some schools are getting help to read and write exams.
Editorial: Schools need a cure for learning disorders
EDITORIAL: Why do so many school children have diagnosed learning disorders?
Hawke's Bay teachers are 'resigning because of burnout'
Stressed Hastings teacher challenges Chris Hipkins to "spend a week in my classroom".
Struggling to learn: Can we rewire kids' brains?
Scientists believe that children's brains can be "rewired" by practice.
Jodie Rimmer: Let's get behind the teachers
COMMENT: Striking teachers' deserve all parents support.
Scooters and ice creams as dads take on kids for teachers' strike
Most parents still back the teachers despite the Government's latest $700m offer.
Students 'stressed out' by NCEA computer glitch
Principal says computer glitch 'was in the same category as a fire alarm going off'.
Education Minister says teachers keep asking for more
Latest pay offer "overwhelmingly rejected" at first teachers' meetings today.
Striking teachers hold out for workload relief, smaller classes
"Time to teach, time to lead" - workload claims are now dominating teachers' demands.
Teacher's march in August
Teachers say the latest government offer came to late to avoid strike.
Beck Vass: My daughter's teacher has 10 jobs
Better pay for teachers is an expensive problem to fix. But what will it cost if we don't?
Teachers on strike: 'The 1980s called, they want their wages back'
Teachers say $700m pay offer came too late to rearrange strike meetings.
School expulsion can be fatal - study
Study linking expulsions to early deaths dramatises the high cost of school failure.
Struggling to learn: Some kids have better chances in Africa
Simon Collins shares Razeal's tale and asks where we are going wrong.
NZ teachers have biggest workloads: Survey
Global poll found Kiwi teachers work 52.1 hours each week.
Henderson Valley School board to review concerns over principal
Henderson Valley School's board will "carefully review" concerns raised in an open letter.
Education Minister hits back: 'Other Kiwis would appreciate $9500 pay hike'
Primary and intermediate teachers are going on strike tomorrow.
Revealed: Hawke's Bay school expulsion, suspension rates
Stand down, suspension, exclusion, expulsion? Full Hawke's Bay schools data is revealed.
Lizzie Marvelly: Why I struggled with my sexuality
COMMENT: Talking to teenagers about sex is a sensitive subject. But it is so important.