Some children arrive at school already able to read. They have enjoyed books with their parents and understand the exciting route that reading takes them into the wonderful world of stories. They may well…
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Using an e-reader may help some dyslexic students understand what they read more effectively, researchers at Harvard University argue. In a paper published in the journal PLOS One, the authors found that…
The recent release of Australia’s performance in the TIMMS (2011) and PIRLS (2011) test results has sparked much media comment about what this means for the quality of Australian education. The focus so…
Prime Minister Julia Gillard in September set an ambitious goal for Australian education: to be ranked as a top-five country in reading, mathematics and science by 2025. Clearly she is hoping to lift Australia…
MRI scans point to the coordination of multiple, complex cognitive functions that occur when we read for leisure, and also…
Bookshelves towering floor to ceiling filled with weighty tomes, or one book-sized device holding hundreds of “books” in electronic form: which one of these options for the voracious reader creates the…
Almost half of all Australians aged 15-74 years had literacy skills below the level required to participate effectively in our society, according to a 2008 study from the Australian Bureau of Statistics…
Julian Barnes today won the Man Booker Prize for his novel about a childhood friendship and the fragility of memory, The Sense of an Ending. This is the fourth time he’s been nominated, and Barnes declared…
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Sessional Tutor, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, University of Stavanger
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Professor Emerita of Linguistics, American University
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Associate Professor in English Literatures, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Emeritus Professor of Education, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education, University of Birmingham
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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 Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University
