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Motel where Joanne Ingham was found dead has a chequered history
There have been allegations of migrant sex work, a police raid and an assault outside.
Election 2020: What's the plan to teach our young people? Policies compared
Education reporter Simon Collins examines the parties' policies on education.
Back to school? Why your kid should get dirty
Abolishing national standards has freed schools to help kids learn through play.
National Standards: Review group quietly appointed
Ministry quietly opens parents' survey on replacing National Standards, closing June 28.
Report reveals high cost of shifting schools
Children who start school ahead finish ahead, but those who change schools fall behind.
Harete Hipango: Labour's extra time in the House means electorates miss out
Four weeks is plenty of time to study cracks appearing in coalition government
Pacific NCEA pass rate above 80% for first time
Maori success rate rises impressively but still lags behind other groups.
Teachers: $300m collaborative policy has flopped
Teachers rate their schools highly - but not their 'communities of learning'.
Why schools are ditching reports
Some 70% of schools are measuring children's progress, but not against national standards.
Teacher shortage a 'ticking time bomb'
The number of people training to be teachers dropped 40 per cent in six years.
NZ's top teacher encourages kids to argue
No one shrugs their shoulders or says "I dunno" in Katie Pennicott's class.
Wide-ranging reforms for schools announced
Education summits in May will kick off wide-ranging reforms.
Charter schools, National Standards given boot
Chris Hipkins reserves his right to end all charter schools by the end of the school year.
'Wake up' call over NZ students' decline
Fewer NZ children from poorer backgrounds are "beating the odds" to succeed at school.
Treasury warns: No standards creates gap
Officials don't know how they will allocate funding that was based on national standards.
'Celebrations' as schools dump National Standards
Children's progress the new focus, not 'arbitrary' standards, says Education Minister.
McIvor: Kiwi education - we must do better
OPINION: Our education is too important to be affected by fads and competing ideologies.
NZ kids' reading slides to record low
National Standards have not stopped the reading slide, and may have accelerated it.
Stuart: Good riddance National Standards
COMMENT: Without National Standards children can be assessed on wider criteria.
Revolution in Kiwi schools: National Standards abolished
National Standards will go and NCEA is also up for review by the new Labour-led Government
Maori education programme takes shape
Inspire in Education aids Maori students to achieve and stay in school, says its founder.
Girls have more words than boys by age 2
Girls pull ahead of boys in languages as early as 2, a new study shows
Teachers resent higher pay for 'experts'
Most teachers feel they have been shut out of developing goals for new groups of schools.
Education priorities - a tough choice
Election voters must choose between two starkly different sets of education priorities.
Lynda Stuart: National's online reporting tool flawed
COMMENT: Teachers will resist plan to report National Standards to parents online.
Vote 2017: Your say - who is winning the race?
Heart Beat series: They told us about their towns. Now hear their views on the election.
Bill English: Kiwis aren't an ATM for Labour
Every primary school will be funded to offer second-language learning under National.