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Is teacher PD our only way forward?

If, as John Hattie says, teachers are the single biggest in-school determinant of student outcomes, why don't we support our…

7 years ago

Australia’s students are failing: I blame the politicians

The results of PISA 2015 were released late last year and Australia has slipped down the rankings, again. Misty Adoniou…

7 years ago

Rethinking how we assess learning in schools

There is a major flaw in the way we currently assess school students. By labelling them as either “good” or…

7 years ago

More parents are choosing to home school their children: why?

More parents in New South Wales (NSW) are choosing to home school their child. There are now around 10,000 registered…

7 years ago

Stop focusing on ‘the problem’ in Indigenous education

Much attention in Australian Indigenous education is paid to the “achievement gap” and not nearly enough is paid to the…

7 years ago

What’s in store for the children of the tech revolution?

With curriculum planning complete for the start of the academic year, technology and the role it’s expected to play is…

7 years ago

Teachers know how to fix education decline, but parents must listen

We know how to fix it, but the parents must listen. When Finland came out top in the ranking of…

7 years ago

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…

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

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…

7 years ago

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