In the 'salad bowl' of ethnic and cultural diversity of Hawai'i, there are attempts to make school work more relevant to all cultures, including involuntary minorities such as the indigenous Hawaiians. Teaching geometry in new ways is the focus of the research described here.

Many years of patient research have discovered how new ideas get formed, embedded, and remembered at the 8- to 12-year-old level. The conclusions are vital for all teaching.

Asking very young children to draw can reveal a great deal about how they are coping with school, what they are learning and what they regard as important. Better teaching can follow.

The effects of school administrative reforms in New Zealand have not been to promote equity but to promote inequity. Facts, figures and observations are linked to policy decisions.

A review of the many research projects on how prior knowledge affects learning. Generally, having old knowledge to which new knowledge may be attached greatly assists learning the new.

Most adults find it difficult to keep an exercise programme going; but active children become active adults. The benefits, and the limits, are spelt out.

Here are the voices of 50 women who are seldom heard – working class mothers – commenting on their own schooling and that of their children.

Listening to parents and teachers and then working on ways to close the gap between their widely differing expectations.

Modern industry needs literate workers. How literate? How can workers' literacy be improved? What can schools learn about necessary literacy and what they teach? Investigations with BHP workers help find answers.