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Also at post-Cabinet press conference: Doctors' strikes, health milestones, and more.

King Charles has approved the cancellation of disgraced sex offender James Wallace’s knighthood, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed.
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Labour plans to mandate reading, writing and maths "core teaching requirements", to ensure consistency regardless of which school a student attends.

The new model would become compulsory from 2026.

“The latest Progress in International Literacy Study (PIRLS) report should be a wake up call for New Zealand. It is time to end our country’s decline, and there is no place better to start than in teaching kids to read,” says ACT Education ...

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Opinion: New teachers graduate with scant knowledge of the science of human learning.

National's leader Christopher Luxon ditched Parliament for the playground this week, touring schools to sell his party's solution to declining student performance with a back-to-basics focus on literacy and numeracy.  Teacher unions have criticised the plan, but the party was unlikely to ever get their backing - instead targeting concerned parents and his political opponent, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins.  In this week's Focus on Politics Political Reporter Katie Scotcher grad...