'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 ...

A school which wishes to do more than make an intelligent guess at how well it is preparing its pupils for their working lives, and the transition to work, may find many of the questions Carol Cameron asked a good basis for a postal questionnaire, or even Social Studies field ...

Author Index - Authors are listed alphabetically on pages 2 and 3, with references given to the numerical list, pages 6 to 16.
Subject Index - Subjects are listed alphabetically on pages 4 and 5, with references given to the numerical list, pages 6 to 16. The subject headings are ...

Alcohol use is a fact in our society, and so are the alcohol-related problems that it creates. The economic and social costs involved - pressure on hospital and medical services, loss of productive man-hours, marriage breakdown - to name only some of the more obvious,are now widely recognized. And so ...

Last year the Hamilton branch of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children produced a radio programme, broadcast by 1YW Hamilton, on the gifted child and the school situation. The participants included a psychologist, a teacher, a community advisory officer (CAD), the mother of David, a gifted child, and Robert ...