The Education Review Office (ERO) conducted an external evaluation in over two hundred New Zealand schools to find out more about the engagement between schools and the parents and "whanau" (families and extended families) of their students. This paper provides some historical background and key findings from the relevant literature…

Depicts partnership learning's evolution through a long struggle between students, staff, and board members. Describes a program that evolved from a one-on-one instruction to small group instruction in which student learners are encouraged to respect their own knowledge and experience and that of others and to work to become competent, independent…