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A living curriculum is needed to properly teach children about sex and relationships.
NAPLAN results should also be considered in relation to other standardised assessments, which do not always tell the same story.
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The results are in, and student achievement on NAPLAN has plateaued in literacy and numeracy, with some areas of improvement.
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Democracy relies on political education.
The six-part drama revisits the funny, messy, mixed-up lives of the Hughes and Scott families as they struggle to do their best as parents.
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Negative experiences in mainstream schools have harmful long-term effects on pupils with autism spectrum conditions.
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When it comes to engaging young people in their school studies, inclusivity means a lot.
Children decide who can be a superhero.
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Children are often the ones who decide what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.
Making sure all religions are accounted for in British schools.
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There needs to be an urgent debate on the education of Muslim pupils in British schools, but this seems impossible in the current climate.
More still needs to be done to improve trans pupils’ experiences.
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New guidance urging schools to stop making pupils conform to gender stereotypes is a step in the right direction.
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A few of the ways violence may create even more violence.
A primary function of school displays should be to allow children to see their own work around the classroom and school walls.
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Schools should carefully consider the messages that are sent by how they have constructed the learning environment.
As a community we need proactive, positive strategies to reduce youth self-harm and suicide.
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Youth suicide has reached a ten year high, but suicide and self-harm are still taboo topics in schools.
For Socrates, tolerance is fundamentally about equality and the pursuit of truth.
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Schools and universities have a responsibility to protect students from hate speech while also exposing them to views that disrupt their ways of thinking and ideas of the world.
The National School Chaplaincy Program, introduced in 2007, is available in more than 3,000 Australian schools.
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Religious education offered in Australian state schools has variations in the quality of delivery and limited provisions for the students who opt out.
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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.