Voluntary individual tuition for adults with acute problems in reading, writing and spelling is not new. It has always gone on quietly for a few people in a scattered and isolated way. What has changed in the 1970 s is that New Zealanders are starting to realise the scale of ...

Discovery-learning and the information explosion both require that children have study skills. What exactly are these skills and how can they be taught?

In Ypsilanti, Michigan a project has been underway since 1962. It now shows that significantly more of those who had pre-schooling have jobs, stay out of prison, and so on.

Using research findings from the United States which throw light on family stress Professor Bronfenbrenner draws conclusions for New Zealand and points ways ahead. An address given at the second Early Childhood Care and Development Convention, Christchurch, August 1979.

It never takes very long to discover what a secondary school student's attitude to a school subject is. Typically the reply will be in the current idiom and mean either totally enjoyable or totally unenjoyable. It is more difficult to find out exactly what it is about the subject that ...

Maori and other Polynesian children underachieve in the New Zealand school system and educators have often suggested that more research is needed to find out why. More specifically, what skills do Maori and other Polynesian children lack that results in their lower educational achievement? The results of recent research on ...

The aspects of teacher stress which have been researched range from general surveys on the prevalence and sources of teacher stress to more specific surveys on absenteeism, morale, anxiety, satisfaction/dissatisfaction, biographical characteristics of teachers prone to stress, school environment, teacher health, workload, and the nature of the teaching task.
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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.