PISA
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Education
Why are our students’ literacy skills diminishing over time?
2017 NAPLAN results indicated 16.5% of year nine students across Australia were below benchmark in writing. When those same students…
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Review to achieve educational excellence: government
The federal government has named the panel of experts that will lead an inquiry into ensuring that levels of investment…
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Why is financial literacy declining in Australian 15-year-olds?
Around a fifth of 15-year-olds in Australia do not have basic financial literacy, according to a new OECD Programme for…
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Teachers still leaving the job: here’s how to make them stay
More than a year on, Australia as a nation is still failing to retain the best people in the teaching…
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Experts agree: schools not preparing students for twenty-first century
The latest report by Mitchell Institute at Victoria University finds school leavers are not graduating with the skills they need…
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Australian PISA results indicative of educational inequity
The latest reports from two major international assessments of student learning – PISA and TIMSS - show that educational disadvantage…
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Birmingham: misbehaviour infectious, more control for teachers
New reports released overnight have confirmed Australia risks falling behind the world unless educators and policymakers take action to target…
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Is there a crisis in public education?
It is widely claimed that there is a crisis in public schooling, or at the very least, that there is…
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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…
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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…
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