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There is widespread agreement among educators and school communities about the importance of teaching phonics and other code-based literacy practices in early years classrooms.
When the first PISA results were released in 2001, there was a reaction in Germany that is now referred to as ‘PISA-shock’.
Australia Day this year was marked by thousands of people marching against holding our national celebration on 26th January.
The Creative Industries were included as a Strategy for 21st Century Australia by the Australian Government back in 2011.
For many Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students living in remote communities across Australia, ‘choice’ in secondary education is limited to either not going to school or going away to…
Government advisors emphasise the importance of digital technology’s “transformative potential” for learning; top private schools splash advertisements of children with expensive robots across newspapers; and tech companies pitch their latest…
We should see significant changes for children with disabilities in NSW schools if the recently released recommendations by the NSW parliamentary inquiry into the education of children with disabilities are…
As a doctoral candidate coming to the end of my journey, the ever present need to find a job post studies is a challenging position to be in, as many…
Online learning has become a well-recognised part of the broader landscape of higher education.
Teachers and researchers are increasingly aware of the importance of social and emotional competence in the classroom and beyond, including for health, education, and employment outcomes into adulthood.
A fierce debate is raging at the moment in political and education circles about the quality of recruits into teaching courses.
Finnish schools do well in international rankings, but few Finnish teachers, parents and students really care about it very much.
What is phonics for? Where does it fit into an overall pedagogy of literacy? Without clear answers to these questions, the contestants in the phonics debate will continue to circle…
Charter schools represent an important era for public education in the United States, with unprecedented private resources being expended to actively increase school choice in urban markets.
We are deeply concerned about advice the Australian Government has been given on teacher education. We believe it is seriously flawed.