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.

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 ...