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Research into why six subject departments that appeared to be adding significantly more to pupil's achievements than might be expected from their intake found they share a number of things in common...
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
School management systems can evolve and change. This is the story of how two principals came to share the power and responsibilities of the top job at Selwyn College, Auckland.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
At a typical secondary school the researchers discovered how successful the presentation of the science curriculum in discrete separately assessed units of work is. And discovered the (unhappy)...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Some schools are busy challenging the assumptions Richard White details in item No.7, particularly the assumption that children of equal age must all be taught the same curriculum, and...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
15 assumptions get in the way of good education. For example, teachers must punish but teachers must not punish. This item will make you think again.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
At what point is a school big enough? Some small schools provide a better range of subjects than big ones, but tiny schools will always be expensive to run.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A very carefully run experiment in Ballarat High School shows definite benefits for schools like Ballarat H.S. These benefits, and critical comments, are detailed.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
How can education help to break down unnecessary sex-stereotyping of school subjects? The issue was much discussed in the 70s. The 'Catch 22' situation in the diagram was common and it was realised...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
| Year published: 1975 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
It is a fact that there will be fewer and fewer children at school as the 1980s go on. The prospect is felt by teachers as a threat both to their job security, and also to the quality of education...
| Year published: 1983 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article