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Teaching young children about the history of gender and offering them more options for identity expression would help to curb gendered stereotypes and sexism.
Fewer girls study economics today than 25 years ago, perhaps because they have become aware of the barriers to progress.
There are still some tricky equity issues for the incoming government to tackle.
Schools funding doesn’t pass the playground test of fairness: state schools get less government funding than governments themselves say the schools need.
The Suzuki method can work, but requires a high level of parental involvement.
It is normal for girls and women to masturbate, and there are even health benefits.
No single group of people is responsible for this crisis, but we all have a part to play in improving working conditions for school leaders.
While shifting cyber safety education beyond privacy is a step in the right direction, teachers already have to contend with an overcrowded curriculum.
Students need to be able to manage their time, write to an academic standard, be aware of what constitutes plagiarism, make sure they know what support services are available to them, and have fun!
For economics to play a more helpful, critical role, it must abandon blind faith in the free market and embrace the social, historical, and environmental context in which economics actually happens.
There are better ways to teach financial literacy than through school banking schemes.
There are systemic problems with the way mainstream schooling treats students with disabilities. A Royal Commission would shed light on these issues and give us a way forward to a more equal future.
Choosing a career that is unlikely to become automated or done by artificial intelligence, and learning soft skills will give graduates better career prospects in the long run.
Technology has good potential to help students learn, but it must be used appropriately to keep students moving, learning and working together.
As students return to campuses this week, new research shows universities could save money by not asking professors to teach tutorials because they are no more effective than student instructors.
Sex isn’t always straightforward – especially not when you first start ‘doing it’. If you experience pain ‘down there’ after sex, you may need to have a medical checkup.
There is little reason to think changes made to the Closing the Gap targets and partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representatives will have much of an impact.
Including queer texts in the English curriculum has the potential to affect real social change, including in understanding and confronting inequalities.
New technologies like facial recognition are coming – whether we like it or not. We can’t turn back the tide, but we can manage new technology to do the least harm and most good.
Research shows small financial incentives for doing maths homework can increase maths achievement. But this raises some tricky ethical questions.
Shared reading has many benefits. Among them, it can help your child develop a bigger vocabulary.
It can be really tricky to know what to do when someone you care about starts using drugs. Raising the issue and listening without judgement is a good place to start.
Universities have done a lot over the last two years to respond to the high rate of sexual assault and harassment on campus, but we still don’t know whether rates of incidents have dropped.
Children from minority groups rarely see themselves reflected in the books they read. This can negatively impact their sense of identity and their literacy levels.