academic pressure

Expert panel to progress year one phonics test

The Turnbull Government has announced an expert group of principals, teachers, speech specialists, academics and researchers will progress the staged…

7 years ago

Principal: school doesn’t work for most kids

“Secondary school, at least, only really works for about a third of students,” according to Templestowe College principal Peter Hutton.…

7 years ago

Organisation the key for collaborative, calm teaching

Teachers manage a dizzying list of tasks, obligations and interruptions, with up to thirty-five students chattering, emoting, and needing things.…

7 years ago

Australian STEM education lags behind US, UK and Kazakhstan

A recent release of results from the four-yearly Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study has left many speechless and…

7 years ago

Scholarship and accelerated learning program testing

Handled well, scholarships are a win-win situation. Schools enhance their diversity and talent base and market key aspects of their…

7 years ago

School News Term 4 issue out now

The latest issue features the Coolbinia Primary, the ‘greenest school in Australia’; and insight into the collective Courage of Preshil…

7 years ago

Special Report: Is the quest for success harming our kids?

Lucy Clark, author of Beautiful Failures on pressure, parent-teacher relations and the pitfalls of “the quest for success”.

7 years ago

School starting age not a Tasmanian election issue

Tasmanian education minister, Jeremy Rockliff says school starting age will not become an election issue. Controversy around the reforms will…

8 years ago

Can starting school too young jeopardise development?

The Tasmanian State Government is proposing to lower the compulsory school starting age by six months, from five years to…

8 years ago

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