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The purpose of NAPLAN testing needs to switch from exposing school results to encouraging better learning. One education expert outlines why.

Online Literacy Tools are making in-roads into the modern educational environment.

The National Education Summit will be held in Melbourne this year with four conferences, a Masterclass and Education Show.

Teachers have slammed the extra funding for school chaplains in the federal budget.

For the first time in almost 30 years, NSW will review its entire curriculum, drawing on the recommendations of the latest Gonski 2.0 report which urges a shake-up of teaching in Australia. However teachers are not exactly rejoicing.

With teachers leaving the profession in droves, a study has found one way to stick at your job is to loosen up and become more 'adaptable' to different situations.

Students start NAPLAN testing this week at a time when the national testing scheme is being increasingly criticised from all corners. Are there better ways to assess our children?

Students who sit NAPLAN Online testing this year will experience "tailored testing", with targeted questions of higher or lower complexity, depending on their performance. Find out what it's all about.

NAPLAN Online testing which starts this month will swap pens and pencils for devices. How will the tests be marked? What devices are allowed? Find out what it all means in these Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

A school with a background of poverty and gang violence is now in the top 5% in England and Wales for improving pupils’ achievement. The inaugural world's best teacher had something to do with the dramatic turnaround.