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There has been mixed reaction among teachers, parents and education experts to the new national plan for assessing and improving teachers’ performance. Under the model, developed by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) for the federal government, teachers ...

There are now more pathways for school leavers to get a degree with the federal government mandating its desire to increase the number of undergraduate students by 2020. The changes mean that those with lower ATAR scores and people with ...

Remember when you were a child? Remember what it felt like to ‘squish’ paint around a piece of paper? What it felt like to dance and sing along to your favourite TV characters, whether they were bears, birds or dinosaurs? ...

In 2011 ACARA released the 2010 Report National Assessment Program – Civics and Citizenship Year 6 and 10 Report. By any standards the results were dismal. But for anyone who believes that the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young ...

Over recent years, the education system of Finland has emerged as being amongst the best in the world. Reasons given usually include a small and somewhat homogeneous population, community respect for education as a public good, local autonomy for schools ...

A recent discussion of Dr Chris Sarra’s Stronger Smarter Program on Big Ideas (ABC Radio National) addressed the relationship of high expectations to attitudinal change in an indigenous school community. In building high expectations within a community of teachers, positive ...

Where did the notion of a “self-managed school (SMS)”, school based management (SBM), locally empowered schools, charter schools or independent public schools begin? Professor John Smyth of Flinders University gives us a lead. In a 1999 interview by Nick Davies ...

I found the schools I visited in Finland to be much more relaxed than those I am familiar with in Australia. But this was not the lazy feeling of relaxation one feels on a holiday, rather it was a relaxed ...

A survey of 40,000 US children released in 2011 by Cylab, a division of Carnegie Mellon University, found that 10.2 per cent had their identity compromised with someone else using their social security number. Among adults the figure is a ...

When I deliver professional learning for educators, I am sometimes asked about how I find the time to keep up with the exponential growth of information. I’m almost embarrassed to say, I probably don’t invest any more time than most ...