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.

Hostile feedback from residents in some of the country’s most expensive real estate has caused an emerging school to back away from including them in its new zone.

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

Only 4 per cent of non-Maori secondary school students are learning te reo Maori, the latest figures show.

As another school success story results in a new school zone, parents fear it'll end in changes to a zone so elite it can add 20 per cent to property prices.

Labour's new teaching policies are response to National's proposal to pay good teachers and principals more and require them to work with others.

Community Spirit category: When high school teacher Roshni Gounder came down with a sudden illness, many people expected her to give up her job.

Labour wants to end "voluntary" school donations by offering a grants of $100 per student to schools that stop asking parents to fund "day to day" spending.

Hawke's Bay student Lucan Battison and his controversial head of hair got the last minute all-clear to attend his school ball last night.

Act wants to give all state schools the option of becoming charter schools, Act leader Jamie Whyte said today.

NZ schools are facing hefty legal bills to ensure their rules on students' appearances are legally watertight.

Editorial: Justice Collins made it clear that his judgment related only to this case. It did not rule on the lawfulness of schools' rules that attempt to regulate a student's hair.

School-leavers would be issued with a certificate detailing their tardiness, attendance and attitude under a scheme called for by employers.

Schools are increasingly putting students under closed-circuit television surveillance to cut bullying.

With NZ's education system dropping in world rankings, is our curriculum keeping pace with a rapidly-changing world and do enough children have full access to new technology?

Serious health and safety issues including drug use and bullying plagued one of New Zealand's first charter schools as its management became dysfunctional.

I reckon that single-sex schools and healthy cereal are the same phenomenon, writes Verity Johnson.

A principal is flabbergasted at a decision to allow a liquor store to open in a former video parlour directly opposite his school in Mangere.

Rugby players from a top school have been caught shoplifting at a world championship in Japan.

Researcher Hana Turner's reports of racist attitudes among her fellow teachers show prejudice is as deeply woven into our school system as ever.

Black leather shoes mandatory at many New Zealand schools in winter are causing harm to children's feet, say podiatrists.

Parents are raising more than $357 million a year in donations and fundraising to support the "free" schooling system.

A German international student has been expelled from school and faces being kicked out of the country because he had one puff on a joint in his free time.

New Zealand students will move out of "the dark ages" and complete experimental NCEA assessments online this year.

Workshop aims to equip school-leavers with basic grasp of 'worldly skills

There will be less chance of dodgy teachers resurfacing at other schools under legislation to be introduced in Parliament today, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.