To read well and widely is a central objective of formal education. People who cannot read are seen to be at a crippling disadvantage, personally, educationally, and vocationally. Public concern...
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When things go wrong with a child's social behaviour, teachers, psychologists and social workers frequently ask for the parents' help. When children are disruptive in class, when children are...
Most teachers assess reading comprehension by asking questions. These questions may be very broad, such as 'What was the story about?' or else very detailed, listed on a worksheet perhaps. Yet...
Legibility research has been going on for two hundred years and it has discovered some useful pointers for anyone who is writing down words, or selecting words, to be put in front of anyone...
Most children begin school expecting to learn to read. If this expectation is not met, if they have problems with reading, they may develop a dislike for reading, or just a hopeless feeling...
Subscribe, or better still have the school subscribe, to one of the half dozen or more journals devoted to reading. But be aware: some journals specialise in one area of reading or specialise in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
The booklet developed by the Mangere Home and School Project to help parents help their own children.