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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.…
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Robots likely to be used in classrooms as learning tools, not teachers
Robots are increasingly being used to teach students in the classroom for a number of subjects across science, maths and…
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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.…
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Should gifted students go to a separate school?
Despite two Senate inquiries in 1988 and 2001, it has taken 15 years and a state parliamentary review for the…
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Why do we still make girls wear skirts and dresses as school uniform?
While the wearing of school uniforms has a long history across Australia, we are only just starting to talk about…
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Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities
The latest Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) results were released around the world on December 6. And as usual,…
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New phonics test pointless: a waste of precious money buying it from England
In the May budget, the federal government allocated money to buy England’s phonic screening test for six-year-olds in Year 1.
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Victoria to raise the ATAR bar for teachers
All Victorian teachers will be among the top 30 percent in the state, according to announced changes to tertiary admissions,…
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