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School apps keep parents in touch
The frantic scramble for 30 swimming notes, hunting in lost property for spare goggles, towels, or a size six pair…
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Student disengagement a bigger problem than violence: Grattan report
Australia’s education system needs comprehensive reform to tackle widespread student disengagement in the classroom, according to a new Grattan Institute…
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Storage lockers for healthy spines and security
While private schools in Australia generally have lockers for high school students to store their heavy bags, many state schools…
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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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High school students pilot Mars mission by sending code into space
Thanks to recent advances in science and technology, humans are closer than ever to putting boots on Mars. The University…
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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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New model for school funding that won’t break the budget
Funding schools according to the needs of their students is something of a Holy Grail in Australia: something that we…
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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…
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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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How to teach literacy so no child is left behind
Children who do not learn to read in the first few years of schooling are typically destined to a school…
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