The booklet developed by the Mangere Home and School Project to help parents help their own children.

When the nations of the world, after the shattering experience of the first world war established the League of Nations they attempted also to establish standards nations would pledge to live by, to help build a truly peaceful and happy world. On the 26th of September 1924, the Assembly of ...

FOSSIC (For Observing Study Skills In Children) has been devised to help the classroom teacher assess how well a child is studying - in school, and at home.

If we wish to understand the feelings of people and to involve them in organisations such as the PTA, and get them along to our schools it is helpful to think of these situations as being similar to parties. A party has hosts. It also has guests. Both hosts and ...

'The more TV that children watch, the worse they will do at school, particularly when it comes to reading.' That is one popular belief. Another is that, for children who have difficulty with reading, watching television keeps them away from their books, and therefore it is a counterproductive activity. These ...

There is a considerable difference in attitude to secondary school assessment both within and between various groups in the community. In recent years the community has become increasingly critical of the traditional school practices which culminate in the external examination at the end of Form V. The critics tend to ...

The renewed interest in bilingual education which began in other countries in the mid 1960s has developed only slowly in New Zealand. In 1976 the Marshall Committee expressed the view that the time was already overdue for the setting up, in carefully selected schools, of bilingual Maori-English programmes from the ...

Neville Bennett's controversial research into primary teaching styles unearthed one informal teacher who obtained higher learning gains for her children then any other teacher in the sample. E.C. Wragg has been watching how she handles more than a thousand individual contacts a day.
This reprint, from the Times Educational Supplement ...

In 1973 Robert Havighurst, an eminent American anthropologist and educator who had worked in New Zealand previously, spent a few months talking to New Zealand educators and visiting secondary schools in Northland. He had just completed a major study of the education of North American Indians, and suggested that it ...

Youth Unemployment: A review of the situation in New Zealand.

One Hundred Early School Leavers: An in-depth longitudinal study of 100 early school leavers, 1974 to 1977 by Carol Cameron and Ian Livingstone.

Job Scarcity in the Bay of Plenty: An extract from a recently completed survey of school leavers ...