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School banking programs target ‘vulnerable consumers’. But research shows kids are smarter than you think

51% of parents had concerns about financial institutions marketing to young primary school students.

3 years ago

Teachers are expected to put on a brave face and ignore their emotions. We need to talk about it

I wanted to find out how someone who wants to become a teacher learnt what they should or should not…

3 years ago

Booming enrolment, urgent need for more funding for public schools

Public schools already teach two-thirds of all students, yet over the five years from 2016 public school enrolments rose by…

3 years ago

Badmouthing parents? Board members caught on camera

Unwittingly broadcast to parents: two minutes of conversation between four school board members has big repercussions.

3 years ago

High-performing schools to be emulated across system

Under the School Success Model, best practice at qualifying Ambassador Schools will be scaled across to similar schools that are…

3 years ago

NSW Schools Summit: Collective power will fuel student success

“Neglecting to teach synthetic phonics in the early years is the educational equivalent of refusing to vaccinate our children.”

3 years ago

Why the curriculum should be based on students’ readiness, not their age

Worse, the students most affected are those also disadvantaged by their socioeconomic circumstances.

3 years ago

A school system tailored to individual ability rather than age sounds good, but there’s no evidence it works

Until we have research documenting and evaluating such approaches, at scale across whole schools and systems, the risks far outweigh…

3 years ago

Expert teachers new ingredient in curriculum reform

“The work these expert teachers do over the next four years will directly embed teachers’ perspectives into the curriculum reforms.”

3 years ago

Children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers

Leveraging the records of 13 consecutive cohorts of primary school students, we compared the academic outcomes of all children raised…

3 years ago

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