It was while researching her two latest projects that Award-winning journalist Rebecca Macfie came to realise the privileges colonisation had bequeathed her own family.

Creating and maintaining the conditions for learning for tamariki burdened by compounding hardship is a relentless and all-consuming challenge for school leaders. In Papakura, that burden is lightened by community partners who share a fierce commitment to educational equity.

Eye patches aren’t just for pirates and villains. In Elio, Disney/Pixar introduces a young hero with a patch – and breaks old stereotypes in the process.

As teen anxiety and depression continue to rise, and as our rangatahi face mounting pressures, the experiences these centres offer are increasingly important.

This Government, like those before it, has once again failed to protect our most vulnerable. And in doing so, it has laid bare a truth we cannot ignore — Aotearoa is a nation that does not prioritise the wellbeing of Māori children.

Youth crime is a constant issue in New Zealand – and in the last few years, stories of ram raids, violent attacks and spree offending have dominated the headlines.

A researcher has partnered with a South Auckland marae to grow an urban "food forest" with the goal of using it as a seed for future change.

In treating school lunches as a service rather than an investment, penny pinching risks raising costs above value.

Principals from schools in the country's poorest communities have united to call for an end to new NCEA reading, writing and maths tests.

When award-winning journalist and author Rebecca Macfie began a new project to explore poverty in Aotearoa, she first had to ask herself some hard questions.

The same week the Government revealed its new child and youth strategy, experts gathered across the road to discuss the economic, developmental and moral cost of child poverty.

One in four Kiwi children live in households where food runs out often or sometimes.

98,900 children in Aotearoa New Zealand are living in persistent poverty. This is according to the newly released official Statistics NZ definition for persistent child poverty - released on Friday.

The new school lunches menu has been revealed - with Associate Education Minister David Seymour saying the new programme will cost $3 a lunch and save $130 million. Becky Erwood is the co-founder and director of FED. She writes about how hard a $3 lunch would be.

The Act leader’s scheme to cut spending on the free school lunch programme not only subtly shift costs from central government to schools, it also risks damaging the very thing that makes the programme work, writes Max Rashbrooke.

A University of Auckland researcher says she cannot blame parents for choosing to buy junk food over fruits and vegetables, but notes the negative impact poor nutrition can have on children.

For a household with two adults and two children, food prices have risen 35% between 2018 and 2023.

Treating failing eyesight and high cholesterol are two new ways to lower the risk of dementia developing, a major report suggests.

As industrialised social support structures are cut back and social problems deepen, we must deal with the causes and not just ease the symptoms.

The hearing and vision of Clevedon School students was checked last week, thanks to support from charity Painga Project.