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Education in Focus
Reading Recovery: 30 per cent fewer students getting one-to-one literacy support
Between 2021 and 2022, 6 per cent fewer students received intensive literacy support.
Reading wars: Less than 40 per cent of schools offer Reading Recovery
The uptake of Reading Recovery has hit a record low.
Making the Grade
Editorial: New Zealand, we need to talk about your schoolwork
New Zealand's decline in core subjects forces us to examine what needs to change
Q&A: The big fail - how do we fix NZ’s broken education system?
Education Hub founder Dr Nina Hood and reporter Amy Wiggins answer your questions.
'They would have been better off guessing' - why Kiwi kids can't do maths
Educators say we need to give clearer instructions to avoid overloading children's brains.
Kids don't know alphabet because they aren't taught to form letters - handwriting experts
'We’d have happy children... children who were attending school every day.'
Education crisis: How bad has the system become and what can be done to repair it?
Parents around the country are concerned about the quality of our education system.
History of surfing v New Zealand Wars - the battle over our school curriculum
'There is a great danger that some students are missing out on big chunks of learning.'
Making the grade: Should schools teach life skills like budgeting, driving and civics?
'If they can't get them from Mum and Dad, they need to get them from school.'
Reading Block
My son couldn't read - now I know why: Inside NZ's falling literacy crisis
NZ used to be 'one of the most literate nations on earth'. What happened?
NZ's literacy crisis and kids unable to read: 'Teachers ask me: Why weren't we trained in this?'
Our children's reading rates are dropping - is structured literacy the answer?
Sea change or slow lane? What NZ's new reading strategy means for our kids
The Government has signalled a move toward structured literacy.
Making an Educated Choice
Choices, choices: How to decide where to train or study in NZ
How to choose the best place to train or retrain in the Covid recession.
Who gets into med school? Row over Māori, Pacific preferences explained
Doors close on non-preferred applicants at our medical schools.
Lottery proposed to ease 'genius' test for medicine
Medical students suffer breakdowns under pressure to achieve 95 per cent grades.
Public v Private
Private schools: Are they worth $20,000 a year?
Are private schools worth the money? Part 1 of a 3-part Herald investigation.
'Faith trumps dosh': Religious schools beat private and state schools on UE results
Integrated schools lift your chance of UE by 8.3 per cent, private schools 6.9 per cent.
Public v private: How children learn at three very different schools
Private, integrated and state schools within a 4km radius could hardly be more different.
Choosing Childcare
As much as a mortgage: Parents delaying second child because of daycare costs
Some parents fall into the 'second-child trap' when it comes to paying for childcare.
Choosing childcare: A beginner's guide to early childhood education in New Zealand
How to find a way through the myriad daycare options.
Price war for children as daycare hours dip
Booming childcare supply comes on stream just as demand drops due to Covid-19.
Choosing childcare: From daycare to kindergarten - what are the options?
A guide to a bewildering menu of childcare options.
Choosing childcare: Can you afford daycare for another child?
What does it cost and what are the options? What's the best value for money?
Choosing childcare: How young is too young?
NZ children are going to ECE younger and for longer. Is that a bad thing?
Choosing childcare: The price war in the suburbs
New daycare centres are touting for a shrinking number of children.
Choosing childcare: An insider's view
An insider's view of childcare by Glenfield early childhood teacher Nick Batley.
Choosing childcare: Your guide to early childhood education
The complete six-part Herald series for parents looking to make the best choice.
More stories from Education in Focus
Who teaches the teachers? New report looks at the failings of training in NZ
"You’re teaching content knowledge, but it’s the first thing to drop."
What Kiwi kids learn depends on teacher - study
Schools and teachers approach curriculum in different ways.
Australia’s controversial teacher training overhaul in NZ's sights
Providers in Australia will lose accreditation if they do not include certain content.
More than half of students still failing Year 8 maths
Achievement by girls, Māori, Pacific and low decile schools have all dropped.
'They don’t know what they’re doing is assault': Campaigners call for mandatory sexual consent education in schools
'We know what happens when students don’t get this. We know sexual violence is endemic.'
Making the grade: Should schools teach life skills like budgeting, driving and civics?
'If they can't get them from Mum and Dad, they need to get them from school.'
Do young people leave school with basic skills for work? No, say employers
An employer asked an apprentice to sweep the workspace. They said no and phoned their dad.
Opinion: Kids paying the price of sociologists' teacher takeover
Opinion: New teachers graduate with scant knowledge of the science of human learning.
Struggling students get the help they need before it's too late
Some schools are seeing achievement climbing as a result of structured' teaching.
'Education crisis': Report calls for overhaul of everything from curriculum to teacher training
Too many students are leaving school ill-prepared for tertiary study, work and life.
Michael Johnston: The path toward a more content-rich curriculum
Opinion: 'A focus on the basics at primary school, is what opens the curriculum up later.'
History of surfing v New Zealand Wars - the battle over our school curriculum
'There is a great danger that some students are missing out on big chunks of learning.'