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New education standards approved in Florida (USA) set academic goals for public school pupils based on race. The revised plan outlines lower benchmarks for African-American, Native American and Hispanic students, and higher ones for Asian and white students. The State ...

Across the developed world teachers earn, on average, less than other workers with university degrees. But teachers in the United States are paid even less than their counterparts in most developed countries. According to an annual report on the state ...

The PM's call to raise education standards faces an uphill battle over funding and debate over teaching standards. Australia's educational future is under threat. David Gonski led a review endorsing a $5 billion school reform package (on a yearly basis) ...

The Victorian transnational education experience, especially with China, has provided widespread benefits for students and the community. During the years that preceded China's entry into the WTO in 2001 Chinese high schools were encouraged to focus on the teaching of ...

Students will sit national exams online for the first time next year, with education ministers pushing for an investigation to assess the feasibility of bringing NAPALAN online as well. Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) assessment and reporting manager ...

Educational leaders say that slashing funding flies in the face of the recommendations from the Gonski review. The NSW government decision to cut $1.7 billion from the education budget has left many teachers, students, parents and others associated with the ...

Great Britain might have finished third on the medal table at the London Olympics but debate continues about the amount of playing field space available to children. The government education secretary, Michael Grove, has relaxed the rules that set out ...

Non-government school leaders are worried about the redirection of funding, saying it tips the scales too far to government schools. After a long and costly two-year process of research, analysis and consultations with key stakeholders across Australia, the education sector ...

A homework hotline, open until 10pm, six days a week, is catching on with teachers and students. Kirrawee High School in Sydney's south began subscribing to yourtutor, a one-to-one, online homework centre, at the end of term two with pleasing ...

After 30 years as a union official, Mary Bluett, the Australian Education Union Victorian branch president, has announced she will not run be running in the next ballot. First revealed in a letter to members, Bluett confirmed that she and ...