A line snakes down the sidewalk at Western High School in Las Vegas during the Nevada Republican presidential caucus.
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Simply by voting in a church, you’re more likely to support a conservative cause or candidate.
Parents need to know when to step back from helping with homework.
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Helping your teenager with their homework can make them feel incompetent and can hinder their own skills development.
Good teaching, well supported schools and involved communities can all help to mend an education system.
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Even poor, badly resourced schools can perform well when teachers, the education department, parents and a school’s broader community work together.
Shy teens are more likely to be included in group activities.
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The start of a new school year is the time when shy teenagers are least likely to be excluded from new friendship groups.
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A headteacher asked parents not to do the school run in pyjamas – but it says more about those in power than parental morals.
Bill Shorten sees a fresh opportunity to re-assert Labor as the Gonski saviour.
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Funding is one of the few areas Labor has left to distinguish itself from the Coalition when it comes to school policy at the national level.
Nutritional lunches can be achieved with simple core foods such as bread, fruit, vegetables, dairy and meat, fish or egg.
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Basic foods can fulfil a child’s nutritional needs at school and keep them energetic and alert.
Parents often don’t realise their child has a right to be enrolled and to receive an equal standard of education in a private school.
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Parents need to be pushier and demand private school places for their children.
Australia ranked 5th on the literacy test, ahead of the US and the UK.
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The political obsession with back to basics literacy is leaving schools behind. What is taught in school is becoming increasingly distant from what is required in the real world.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten announces a new schools funding policy, which reaffirms Labor’s commitment to the Gonski reforms.
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Bill Shorten is pushing schools funding to the centre of this year’s election battle by committing to fully funding the Gonski blueprint.
Tying funding to disability categories is putting pressure on schools and parents.
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By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
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We need to change the school admissions code.
Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, conflicts between parents and teachers can arise.
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As the new school year begins, here’s some advice for how parents and teachers can get off on the right foot.
Most of the new schools needed will be primary schools.
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Inner-city parents in urban redevelopment zones are the most likely to have problems getting their children into a government school.
Setting minimum ATAR levels will not improve quality of teaching.
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A change in enrolment patterns demands a more comprehensive approach to selection to teacher education programs that goes beyond establishing minimum ATAR cutoff points.
Does the diversity of your local school reflect your local area?
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Rather than being microcosms of the community, schools are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity.
Changing attitudes: why is it ‘cool’ to be bad at maths?
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You wouldn’t feel so confident about claiming you weren’t good at reading, so why is it okay to be openly negative about mathematics?
How can we keep teachers in the job?
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The only way to retain good teachers is to change the way schools operate at a systemic level.
Not every teaching graduate will find permanent work. It’s time to weigh up your options.
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Of the 15,000 newly graduated teachers, less than half will find permanent employment in Australia. Now’s the time to decide if you stay on to do casual teaching or work abroad.
The government see private schools as the solution to quality.
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The dumping of Gonski education funding model will inevitably increase social inequality – funding for public schools will reduce while support for private schools increase.