‘Cage-like’ facilities, segregation, and high numbers of exclusions show the concerning ways schools have responded to challenging behaviours by students with disabilities.
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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.
Despite improvements to their content over time, secondary school history textbooks still imply that ‘real’ Australians are white.
Indigenous peoples have very little power when it comes to education policy. Goals, targets and strategies are instead set by the government.
Indigenous students who graduate from university have slightly higher full-time employment prospects than their non-Indigenous peers.
More needs to be done to stop racist attacks and abuse in UK classrooms.
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).
Here’s what the latest funding proposals mean for schools.
The truth about chess playing and intelligence.
Education experts discuss changes to schools and universities following the federal treasurer’s budget speech.
Schooling expert Dr Glenn Savage answers your questions on recent changes to school funding.
‘Per pupil expenditure’ is where the real story lies.
For the first time, Education Minister Simon Birmingham has proposed a credible plan to deliver needs-based funding.
There is no evidence to suggest that vouchers are simpler, fairer and more transparent than current funding models.
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.
By providing a blanket approach to uniform policies, schools risk repressing cultural identity and diversity.
Bad weather conditions often force schools to make unplanned closures.
Selective schools have never operated in isolation from broader historical forces — including Australia’s connected histories of racial exclusion and immigration.
Child refugees talk about their experience of transitioning into a new high school in Australia.
There is usually a historical reason why schools teach certain languages. But as new economies emerge, such languages may no longer be the best ones to learn.
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
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School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Manager, Brisbane Catholic Education & Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct), Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor Emeritus Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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Researcher into Educational Leadership and Policy, Flinders University
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Lecturer, School of Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
