When we asked which topic subscribers would most like to see research about, appraisal topped the list. This article looks at (a) appraisal for firing - helps administrators only, and (b) appraisal for fixing - helps the teacher and the school.

Keeping Ourselves Safe (KOS) is a 'personal safety' curriculum. Australian Freda Briggs, examined Australian, North American, and then a New Zealand programme for children aged five years to fifteen.

What do school pupils know already about the changes to climate, environment, economies, and life style that the greenhouse effect is bringing? Research showing we have the basic facts, but need discussion of the consequences.

What gives your school its personality, its spirit, its own culture? How can you assess school climate, and improve it? With details and case studies this item introduces the next.

This 100 item questionnaire is for you to photo-copy and use. It quickly shows which parts of your school's life you can change for the better, and checks when you have done so.

If you can't change the child perhaps you can change the school. Alternative schools for truants and offenders, called in New Zealand 'Activity Centres', are growing. Do they work? A case study.

PE lessons look full of stimulating and beneficial activity. But are they? You can try some of this research out yourself. It can lead to greater achievement and enjoyment.

Learning only testable facts will not be enough for survival. Learning fact-finding skills will not be enough. Independent thinking, being able to make good decisions, having clear values and a store of useful knowledge are needed.
So teachers want to help students develop effective methods for handling the overwhelming flow ...

This item is about a major unfairness in the New Zealand school system. This unfairness persists year after year. It is built into the way in which young children are promoted out of the junior school. It is the fact that so many are held back or 'retained'. This practice ...

Homework is tradition that has survived waves of enthusiasm and of disenchantment. The famous report in the USA called A Nation at Risk, prescribed 'more homework' as one remedy for education's many ills. Other reports, however, caution that homework hasn't produced the benefits claimed for it; more of the same ...