Many claim the Safe Schools program is essential for reducing homophobia and transphobia in school.
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After a three-week debacle, the findings of the review into the Safe Schools Coalition program are out. Here’s what academic experts make of the review.
Where to from here?
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Five ways children will lose out by forcing all schools to become academies.
Half of lifetime mental illness starts by the age of 14, so emotional well-being is important to have in schools.
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Schools need to change the way they work to support the emotional well-being of our children.
Differentiation is about enabling all students to reach the same learning goal.
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Differentiation is not about about creating different lessons for every student. It’s about teachers providing a range of options for students to demonstrate their learning.
A mere celebrity poses on the red carpet.
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The ‘cult of celebrity’ is not as damaging to children as it may seem – but they do select their heroes and heroines from a fairly narrow world.
Some students will not encounter a trained maths or science teacher until the latter years of secondary school.
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Lack of confidence, negative attitudes and low student participation rates are just a few of the challenges maths and science teachers face.
Rugby: a character-building but potentially health-damaging sport.
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A sports ethics expert considers the concern over tackling in school rugby.
About 80% of homophobic and transphobic incidents that young people experience take place in schools.
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About 80% of students experience some kind of gender-based bullying in their primary and high school years. But research shows that teachers often fail to intervene or are not equipped to deal with it.
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.