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Schools and COVID: Rethinking educational ethics during a pandemic
One suggestion can be to “Marie Kondo the curriculum” – that is, focus on vital topics that bring joy, especially…
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Only one fifth of school students with disability had enough support during the remote learning period
We found children who received one form of support were 24% more likely to feel part of a learning community…
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We know by Year 11 what mark students will get in Year 12. Do we still need a stressful exam?
A new Year 12 design: we propose to dramatically revise Year 12 with the help of predictive analytics.
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More than 90% of Year 10 teachers don’t know the age of criminal responsibility in Australia
A significant proportion of teachers (36.8%) believed 16 was the minimum age of criminal responsibility. And 32.8% said they did…
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Two school leaders on facing a summer of bushfires and COVID-19
Michelle Wainwright, principal of Batlow Technology School, lives on a farm and lost everything in the fires that hit the…
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Gov confirms 90% of teaching students met literacy and numeracy standard benchmarks in 2019
The Federal Government is consulting through Education Council to secure state and territory government support for the release of more…
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Students in Melbourne will go back to remote schooling. Here’s what we learnt last time and how to make it better
Around the same number of teachers said the remote learning period had a positive (33%), negative (36%) or neither positive…
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Reading during coronavirus: books can be triggering, but difficult texts teach us resilience, too
Research has shown reading difficult texts with students requires care, and an awareness of how to approach content and trigger…
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Defunding arts degrees is the latest battle in a 40-year culture war
Since the 1980s, the humanities have been particularly vulnerable to funding cuts. This was driven by the hostility of conservative…
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2020 a record year for building schools
Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said she was thrilled the next phase of school building is well underway with planners, architects…
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