Education

Many Indigenous boys aged 10 to 17 years are receiving lengthy suspensions from school, and research suggests young Indigenous people are more likely to experience incarceration if they have limited educational opportunities.

Researchers made something of a splash with a recent article suggesting that gender gaps in student performance in physics could result from gender differences in urination practice (standing versus sitting).

Male teachers may face extinction in Australian primary schools by the year 2067 unless urgent policy action is taken. In government schools, the year is 2054.

This academic says Minister Birmingham is right to be concerned about the decline in literacy standards of Year 9 students, but the solution will not be found in a phonics test for six-year-olds.

Education leaders from across Australia met last week to discuss their continued commitment to strengthening initial teacher education (ITE), which will lead to higher quality, classroom-ready graduates.

The influence of genes on school achievement has now been well established by researchers using the “natural experiment” afforded by identical and non-identical twins. Genes only accounts for 50 to 75 percent.

Australian schools are caught up in a “cult of speed” - largely driven by NAPLAN reporting, which is focused on testing for improvements in test results from year to year. Experts call for 'slow schooling' revolution.

Rural teaching needs a rethink, and a brand new specialised image to remedy the dearth of teachers willing to get out of the city and taste rural living.

Parents are demanding less screen time at school to balance the screens their kids watch at home. As a result, the question of whether technology in the classroom helps or hinders learning is in the spotlight.

2017 NAPLAN results indicated 16.5% of year nine students across Australia were below benchmark in writing. When those same students were in year three, only 2.8% of them were below benchmark. What happened in those six years?