Food education takes place in preschools, primary schools and secondary schools, though in different ways and to different degrees.
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Food education in Australia tends to be patchy, and doesn’t fully met the present and future life needs of students and their families.
Many children experience the death of a loved one. How teachers respond matters.
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When it comes to helping students who’ve lost a loved one, educators often don’t know what to do or say. A pediatrician offers insights on how schools can support children in grief.
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Why psychoanalysis and children shouldn’t mix.
Helping - but is it enough?
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Teachers’ understanding of dyslexia is mostly limited to behaviour, new survey finds.
The Melbourne Declaration provides a national vision of what education in Australia should be for.
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The Melbourne Declaration is now ten years old. It acts as a national guide for education policy, practice and delivery in Australian schools.
Violence against students is very common in Uganda, even though corporal punishment was banned.
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The UN has declared all violence against children a violation of human rights. But it still happens even in schools.
Best friends.
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More than 800 students told researchers what they value most in their friends.
Poverty means many kids have to go to school without the right uniform - which can lead to being ostracised.
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Education through to the end of high school is a birthright in Australia but many kids are missing out on important parts of that birthright in ways that leave them feeling like losers and outsiders.
Writing for pleasure improves long-term learning outcomes in a range of areas, including maths and science.
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There needs to be more opportunity in school and at home for students to learn to write for enjoyment.
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Civil society groups continue to fight against the creeping demands of the UK’s immigration system.
Remember to look for the positives in your child’s report.
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School reports are coming soon. Here’s a guide for how to interpret and make best use of your child’s school report.
On the sidelines.
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Physical education is for every body - as long as it’s male.
Imperial Federation Map of the World showing the extent of the British Empire.
The Empire in red in 1886, by Walter Crane
Students need to be taught about colonialism’s dark past.
School children at Nunawading Christian College in Melbourne. What if rural students were educated as well?
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Lifting the standards of rural and remote students to the those of urban students could boost the economy by 3.3%
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced he will amend laws that allow schools to expel gay students.
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Public opinion polls and a survey of Australian youth show there’s little support for allowing schools to hire or fire teachers based on their sexual orientation.
Morrison himself has built expectations of action on religious freedom.
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This debate will divide and discredit the Liberals unless it can be shut down quickly. Within the party it will split the moderates from the right, and cause division within the right too.
Cellphones carry certain risks for elementary school students.
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While many parents believe equipping their young child with a cellphone is a matter of safety, research shows the practice comes with certain risks.
Funding boosts to private schools will not necessarily result in lower fees.
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Increased funding to Catholic schools won’t necessarily make them more accessible for low-income families.
New analysis shows parents at advantaged Catholic schools can afford to pay their way.
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New analysis shows wealthy parents at advantaged Catholic primary schools could actually afford the increase to school fees under the needs-based model.
Teacher turnover causes significant disruptions to the school year, researchers say.
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About 16 percent of all teachers change schools or leave teaching. Often, these changes occur in the middle of the school year, which causes significant setbacks in learning, researchers say.