The Mathematics of Knitting eliminates pencil, paper, calculator (gasp) and textbook from the classroom completely. What do students do instead?

Increasing demands on teachers to collect data and undertake administrative tasks has blown out the working week to 54 hours. NSW public school teachers now spend 11 hours a week of home life on school work.

Mobile phones are copping blame for everything from Australia's declining academic scores to students not completing their homework. Five experts give their opinions on whether the ubiquitous devices should be banned from schools.

To ensure Australian students have access to a range of quality history curricula at school and university, we need to consider the responses of history experts and teachers, rather than politicians.

School vision statements should be broad enough to cover educational priorities but specific enough to guide the direction and operation of the school.

Although adults’ sense of morality has previously been mapped, until now we have known little about what children care about, or how this might change as they age.

While active collaboration between teachers has long been recognised and encouraged, most teachers have little time to do so. Why ‘design thinking’ will help achieve better collaboration.

Trends in education suggest an increased focus on the assessment and teaching of thinking skills in the future.

Opinion: Here’s why NAPLAN testing is a vital navigation tool for policy makers and researchers.

Have a budding author in the classroom? The NAPLAN writing test could be turning students into bad writers and here's why.