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In The Classroom
NAPLAN: Numeracy improves, literacy slips
Australia's latest NAPLAN results show improving numeracy outcomes for older students, but declining reading performance and weaker Year 3 maths results have raised fresh concerns for educators and policymakers.
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In The Classroom
Testing exposes Australia’s education divide
The latest NAPLAN results show achievement gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students remain entrenched, with Indigenous, regional and lower socioeconomic students continuing to record lower results than their peers.
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Health and Wellbeing
The power of school pride groups
School pride groups help LGBTQIA+ students feel safer, more connected and more engaged with school, but new research suggests many groups remain vulnerable due to staffing pressures and limited institutional support.
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Policy & Reform
Advocacy vs abuse: When parents get it wrong
For more than a decade leading schools, I was threatened, abused, and talked about in ways I had no power…
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In The Classroom
Record numbers for PM’s Spelling Bee
The 2026 Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee opened for business last Monday with record-setting day-one numbers of 10,425 student registrations, an 58 per cent increase on 2025. Since then, more than 1800 teachers have added 27,300…
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Policy & Reform
Why families choose private schools
Australian families are increasingly choosing private schools despite rising fees, with researchers suggesting concerns about public school funding, infrastructure and resources may be helping drive the shift away from the public system.
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Health and Wellbeing
School readiness for choking incidents
A choking emergency is a low-frequency event in schools, but when it happens it demands fast, coordinated decision making. That combination can expose gaps that ordinary safety checks miss: staff may know first aid but…
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Opinion
Dealing with anti-feminist beliefs in classrooms
Teachers are increasingly experiencing harmful, sexist, and misogynistic behaviours in the classroom, while one in four girls feel unsafe in school due to boys’ behaviour.
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