Editorial: The Teachers Council, the registration body that ought to speak with the authority of the New Zealand Law Society or Medical Association, never offers a view on educational issues.

Backers of a controversial scheme to fast-track trainee teachers into classrooms are claiming initial success, with all 16 inaugural graduates passing their first three months as teachers.

Many people assume that sending their child to a private school will boost their academic achievement, writes Judith Nowotarski. That assumption is wrong.

Our target is to double the effectiveness of teaching and learning in half the time and half the cost, writes Peter Mazany.

Does the experience of lecturing university undergraduates prepare teachers adequately to teach children and adolescents? Dr Peter Lind gives his view.

A teacher tried to hire a gang member to assault her principal because she was being hassled about lies she told to the school, a disciplinary hearing has found.

It is the consequence of decades of government indifference to education and will take at least a generation to fix, writes Peter Fenwick.

A handful of schools are holding out on releasing National Standards to the Minister of Education as the first round of data is made public.

The University of Auckland has confirmed its intention to buy the ex-Lion Breweries site in Newmarket.

Tuhoe plans to set up three charter schools and are negotiating with the Education Ministry on how they can do it on their own terms.

A higher birth rate and an ageing workforce mean hundreds of teachers could be needed to meet a staff shortage as school rolls surge over the next decade.

Failure starts before a child has even set foot in the classroom, writes Jim Traue.