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Structured Literacy In English

21 items · 15 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 30 Apr 2026

Auckland principals and educators express concern that the government's rapid rollout of new curriculum changes — particularly in English and maths — risks overwhelming schools with content and timelines, calling for a slowdown to ensure sustainable and effective implementation.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 9 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 9 articles
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  • Ron Mark hdpa-drive Full Show Podcast: 01 May 2026 1 May · 115s
    So apparently Americans are turning off the news when they see Trump's involved with it. He's turning into a big turn-off basically. Dan Mitchinson will run us through that detail when he's with us shortly. It's 4.26 now. You caught up yet on what's going on with the PNG NRL team and the tax-free status? So apparently part of the sweetener for... Because it's... Because it's P&G, right? No one wants to go live in Papua New Guinea. So as a result what they're doing is they're having to make it a really fantastic deal to get people to sign up to this team, players to sign up to this team. So what they've done is for the next 10 years a deal between the Australian and PNG governments has basically agreed that the players don't have to pay any tax, which is why Jerome Luai has just signed at $1.2 million and decided to go over there because it's all tax free, how good is that? But now the other players and commentators are pretty worried about this because it gives these guys an advantage, right, of potentially like 40 to 48 percent. send seller on top of the celery cap andrew mcphadden from the warriors has made it clear he's not happy about that basically because of the increased salary cap he says for 100 years the salary cap has been equal now we've got this instance where one team has a different salary cap i'm not sure how it's going to play out to be honest with you we're going to have a chat to tony kemp about that it's going to be with us just after half past five heather my daughter has done structured learning for the first two years of primary school since 2024 the result was It was immediate and progressing ahead in leaps and bounds. I'm so grateful to Erica Stanford for this. That's from Blair. Heather, is that woman for real? It's not a parent's job to teach your kids to read. Damn right it is. It's both the school and the parents. Now, Ben, I would agree with you. I would agree with you. But I take her point, which is you're the support partner here as the parent, right? You're not actually the teacher. The teacher is the teacher. And what's happened here is it's flipped around for a really long time. Teachers weren't teaching the kids to read. And so we were as parents having to do like educating. It's got to be the other way around. You've got to do your bit, but you've got to support the teacher who's doing the predominant amount. I think that's kind of the point she was making. Anyway, news is next.
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Sample framings

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beehive Government / N-A

groundbreaking research in reading education

Education contributions recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
31 May
hdpa-drive Government / N-A

evidence-based reform driving long-term student success

Full Show Podcast: 01 May 2026
1 May
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