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What schools should be doing to deal with the crisis in children’s mental health.
School children today face a huge amount of pressure.
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The government is making £200,000 available to train teachers in how to deal with mental health issues in secondary school children.
A new model for trauma-informed schools can help teachers support children who have experienced war, terror, and maltreatment.
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A new model shows how the Canadian school system can play a healing role - for children traumatized by war, displacement and abuse.
Students with disabilities are regularly segregated from their peers in the playground, classroom and lessons.
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‘Cage-like’ facilities, segregation, and high numbers of exclusions show the concerning ways schools have responded to challenging behaviours by students with disabilities.
Seeking out a good education can sometimes take you away from what’s familiar.
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If the government is to continue to spend millions toward sending Indigenous children away to boarding school, we need research into how effective this model is, and its impact on communities.
Who is portrayed as Australian? ‘Opening of the first parliament’ Tom Roberts c.1903.
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Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that ‘real’ Australians are white.
Why has such little progress been made over the past 50 years in Indigenous education?
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Indigenous peoples have very little power when it comes to education policy. Goals, targets and strategies are instead set by the government.
Northern Territory has the highest proportion of Indigenous school students.
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Indigenous students who graduate from university have slightly higher full-time employment prospects than their non-Indigenous peers.
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More needs to be done to stop racist attacks and abuse in UK classrooms.
Some in the Catholic community previously labeled the Safe Schools program as ‘controversial’.
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The new program for Catholic schools draws on the same research as Safe Schools (so perhaps it wasn’t part of a ‘Marxist agenda’ after all).
How will policy changes affect schools?
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Here’s what the latest funding proposals mean for schools.
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The truth about chess playing and intelligence.
Most schools will get a boost in funding, while universities will face cuts.
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Education experts discuss changes to schools and universities following the federal treasurer’s budget speech.
Most schools wills receive more money under the new reforms.
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Schooling expert Dr Glenn Savage answers your questions on recent changes to school funding.
The school funding problem.
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‘Per pupil expenditure’ is where the real story lies.
Catholic schools and over-funded schools will lose out the most.
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For the first time, Education Minister Simon Birmingham has proposed a credible plan to deliver needs-based funding.
Vouchers give parents more choice over schools.
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There is no evidence to suggest that vouchers are simpler, fairer and more transparent than current funding models.
Does Japan’s moral education system leave any room for students to appreciate diversity and think critically?
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The changes required of a textbook that referred to a bakery – an “inappropriate” form of Japanese culture – illustrate how the system falls short of its goals of deliberative and critical education.
Do school uniforms repress culture and identity?
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By providing a blanket approach to uniform policies, schools risk repressing cultural identity and diversity.
All schools were closed throughout south-east Queensland due to severe rain.
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Bad weather conditions often force schools to make unplanned closures.