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Biggest overhaul of NSW year 12 syllabus in 20 years
New syllabuses for HSC English, maths, science and history were released on February 20, updating the knowledge and skills students…
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Why global education rankings don’t reveal the whole picture
Country rankings in international education tests – such as PISA and TIMSS – are often used to compare and contrast…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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