Evidence suggests early intervention to improve educational opportunities for low-income kids yields impressive long term results – but we need to use better evaluation methods to know what works.
Given how much money, time and effort has been invested in schooling reforms, why aren’t we seeing substantial improvement across Australia?
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Average NAPLAN results don’t tell the full story. Diving into the details is essential if we are to understand what is going on in Australian education.
Bangladesh’s ruling party ministers say private schools and universities are responsible for the recent surge in terrorism, which includes the attack on a bakery in Dhaka.
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If the government is serious about tackling terrorism, politicisation and increased surveillance in private schools and universities will not be enough.
In a study, children with disability reported being insulted and physically abused while at school.
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Students with disability are experiencing a range of harms in schools, and teachers are struggling to support students with increasingly complex needs.
Following the failed coup in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the sacking of nearly 1,600 deans, 21,000 teachers and 15,000 education bureaucrats.
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The lessons Paulo Freire learnt nearly 90 years ago and the theories he developed from painful personal experience still resonate across Africa’s schooling systems today.
For some parents, home schooling helps to focus on a child’s individual needs, rather than just on grades.
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Home-schooled children appear to do neither worse nor better than those who attend regular school, so why is there an increasing number of parents who are opting for their child to be educated at home?
Three more years for Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition.
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Responsibility for the operation of public schools needs to be separated from the policymaking and regulatory functions and put into a separate authority.
Smaller class sizes do not make a difference the quality of education.
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Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
Should it be the government or the states that decide how money is spent in schools?
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Mixed messages from the Coalition government around schools policy are not only confusing, but also raise deeper questions about whether they have a firm position on schooling at all.
Mobile phones have many benefits. But they can also interrupt classes and distract pupils.
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