A high-performing, predominantly Maori and Pasifika school says it is being snubbed by locals because of its low decile and "brown" community.

An internet cafe owner has been criticised by police for a lack of "social responsibility" for allowing a schoolboy to play computer games during school hours.

Two teacher aides caught passing drugs at an Auckland primary school have resigned today.

An Auckland primary school has suspended two teacher aides after they were snapped exchanging cannabis in the staff room.

With more children coming to school hungry, a scientific study will for the first time guage the impact nutrition — or lack of it — has on learning.

Ongoing problems with Novopay and why a struggling charter school has not been shut down have been raised with the Ministry of Education in a select committee hearing today.

Furious parents in an upmarket city suburb are digging deep for what could be the country's most expensive school PE tops.

The scrapping of nearly one million book loans to schools each year will let down students who are not prepared for digital alternatives, the Labour Party says.

Education Minister Hekia Parata has released figures for the first time showing iwi by iwi how Maori children do in early childhood education, primary school and NCEA.

Auckland is a great place - but it can be even better. In the second of our five-part Future Auckland series we aim to stimulate debate. Teuila Fuatai reports.

If teachers were unpaid, they would be reluctant to do the job and, in the end, children would be worse off, writes Jamie Whyte. Yet the same goes for those who supply the capital.

The Government would have us believe school teachers are just a pack of whiners, writes Dita De Boni. It is exhausting, relentless work, mentally and physically, and I for one am happy to admit I could never hack it.

An explanation of National standards and its place in education.

Some teachers need to get over their victim mentality and recognise the benefit of cutting their holiday time, a leading principal says.

Getting the Government's Investing in Educational Success programme running in relatively quick order was never going to be easy. The concept was bound to be opposed by some.

Students at West Auckland’s Marina View School – some as young as 7 – are learning to code using robots. Students programme the robots to carry out tasks and complete a set course.

As the Government runs the rule over the way our children learn, a US expert suggests change may be needed — but it should start at the top.

Fewer children starting school can speak in sentences, prompting an investigation by education chiefs.

Luxurious holidays in the south of France or Rarotonga and an internship in New York are among the prizes on offer at an extravagant school fundraiser.

Schools are being made to re-enrol students they had kicked out for bad behaviour including carrying weapons, physical assaults and drug use.

Her own boy has done okay - but over a 35-year teaching career Margaret McCaw has helped in the development of hundreds of other children.

The number of young school children achieving or bettering the national standard in reading has fallen or flat-lined in half of the country's regions.

New Zealanders would rather money was spent on improving teaching standards than on reducing class sizes, a Herald-DigiPoll survey reveals.