Evidence suggests early intervention to improve educational opportunities for low-income kids yields impressive long term results – but we need to use better evaluation methods to know what works.
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Average NAPLAN results don’t tell the full story. Diving into the details is essential if we are to understand what is going on in Australian education.
If the government is serious about tackling terrorism, politicisation and increased surveillance in private schools and universities will not be enough.
Students with disability are experiencing a range of harms in schools, and teachers are struggling to support students with increasingly complex needs.
The sacking of Turkish education staff speaks to a broader agenda of control through removing educated dissident voices.
A New Zealand literacy program is helping to raise Indigenous achievement to mainstream levels.
The lessons Paulo Freire learnt nearly 90 years ago and the theories he developed from painful personal experience still resonate across Africa’s schooling systems today.
Home-schooled children appear to do neither worse nor better than those who attend regular school, so why is there an increasing number of parents who are opting for their child to be educated at home?
What’s in store for key policy areas, from health to education to infrastructure to asylum seekers, under a returned Coalition government?
What did the Coalition promise during the campaign in 11 key policy areas, from health to infrastructure to jobs?
The lesson to be learned from Aurukun is around the impact of out-sourcing education to commercial interests.
And many of them are not getting the help they need.
Responsibility for the operation of public schools needs to be separated from the policymaking and regulatory functions and put into a separate authority.
Maxine McKew speaks with education expert John Hattie about the kind of debates we really should be having around education.
Students from non-English speaking backgrounds learn differently depending on the types and number of languages they speak and are literate in.
Schools are focusing on the wrong objective when it comes to using technology in their classrooms. They should focus just as much on how they teach.
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
Mixed messages from the Coalition government around schools policy are not only confusing, but also raise deeper questions about whether they have a firm position on schooling at all.
More pupils in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa are taking smartphones to school. These can be useful learning tools – or terrible distractions.
Good results and issues of identity drive attendance of Jewish schools – it’s not all down to religious beliefs.
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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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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Senior Manager, Brisbane Catholic Education & Associate Professor of Education (Adj.), Charles Sturt 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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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Professor of Social Impact, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
