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Mental health. Two little words finally gaining big attention for all the right reasons. Encouragingly, positive conversations within and outside various social, government and political channels have led us here, and there’s no place we’d rather be.

Funding schools according to the needs of their students is something of a Holy Grail in Australia: something that we want very much but that has been very hard to achieve.

Both-ways learning could just 'close the gap', and allow teachers of Indigenous students to 'draw on two necessarily separate domains of knowledge’

In January 2014, Margaret E Lyttle, the brilliant educational visionary who, as headmistress, was the inspiration of Preshil for over 50 years, died at the age of 101 years.

The latest Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) results were released around the world on December 6. And as usual, there will has been a flurry in the news media.

A recent release of results from the four-yearly Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study has left many speechless and many with a lot to say about the state of STEM education in Australia.

In the May budget, the federal government allocated money to buy England’s phonic screening test for six-year-olds in Year 1.

In a search for some of the most sustainable schools in Australia, School News trawlers happened upon a catch of significant suitability. Coolbinia Primary School has the wholistic sense of sustainability down to a fine art.

All Victorian teachers will be among the top 30 percent in the state, according to announced changes to tertiary admissions, ensuring that teacher education and training in Victoria will be overhauled, and outcomes improved.

Children who do not learn to read in the first few years of schooling are typically destined to a school career of educational failure, because reading underpins almost all subsequent learning.