Real equity in math education is about more than good grades and test scores
Developing students’ mathematical power and confidence is key to creating true equity.
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AI tutors could be coming to the classroom – but who taught the tutor, and should you trust them?
The government is calling for AI tutors. But before their introduction, we need to consider where these tutors are getting their information – and who that information belongs to.
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Food for thought: how NZ’s school lunch programme can add learning and local economies to the menu
The government is reducing the scope and scale of the free school lunch programme. But evidence suggests expanding it would be good for children, communities and local businesses.
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Legal risk and more paperwork: do health and safety laws threaten the great Kiwi school trip?
New research shows high levels of teacher anxiety and frustration over legal liability and paperwork for school trips. But there are ways to maintain this crucial part of the curriculum.
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Why US schools need to shake up the way they teach physics
Making physics more engaging means meeting students where they are, highlighting the ways in which it plays a role in their communities.
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If the NZ government wants to improve student outcomes, it needs to invest more in school-based healthcare
NZ’s teachers say they want to help students but they can’t do it all. And many feel like they are being stretched to support their students’ mental and physical health well in the classroom.
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Walking can prevent low back pain, a new study shows
In a new study, we found that a program combining walking and education can effectively reduce the recurrence of low back pain.
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Sunday school – Monday through Friday: Oklahoma joins states with ‘release time’ laws letting K-12 kids leave school for religious lessons
The Supreme Court has twice weighed in on ‘release time’ policies, and many states allow districts to implement them.
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French far-right: could early school troubles of some National Rally voters explain the party’s appeal?
For the far-right party’s voters, school is a source of concern and mistrust and also a key to understanding its success among women and voters with few qualifications.
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Shakespeare, Beowulf and Chaucer could be back in the NZ English curriculum – should they be?
A ministerial working group is charged with identifying what knowledge matters in secondary school English. But we need a national conversation about what that means in a modern, multicultural society.
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Early childhood education was largely missing from the budget, undermining other education spending
Research consistently shows access to early childhood education can effect literacy, schooling and life in general. Its relative absence in a budget supposedly focused on education is baffling.
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School boards, long locally focused and nonpartisan, get dragged into the national political culture wars
A tradition of nonpartisanship on locally elected school boards is changing, following a national shift toward divisive political partisanship.
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NZ Budget 2024: ‘tax relief’ for the ‘squeezed middle’ – but who’s paying? 7 experts follow the money
Finance minister Nicola Willis made good on two promises with her first budget – tax cuts and no surprises. But the belt tightening required to do that will have longer-term consequences.
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State laws threaten to erode academic freedom in US higher education
A wave of mostly partisan laws have sought to curtail what university faculty can say and teach.
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Profession or trade? Why training NZ’s teachers in the classroom is not the right answer
An ‘apprenticeship’ system would undermine teaching’s role as a profession, and separate trainees from the evolving research and knowledge that university-based training provides.
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What QAnon supporters, butthole sunners and New Age spiritualists have in common
New Age beliefs, alternative wellness practices and political conspiracies all fall under the umbrella of stigmatized knowledge, which can be attractive to anyone, no matter their political leanings.
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Risky business: Why executives keep finding themselves in political firestorms
Government dysfunction has created a policy void in the US, and business leaders are increasingly being called upon to fill it.
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How is China being taught at Australian universities? And why does this matter? Here’s what our research found
Aspiring business people and lawyers are taught how to work with China, but our future politicians, policymakers and journalists do not always receive the same practical instruction.
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