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Policy & Reform
Opinion: what a local and an international scandal suggest about education inequality
ABC Chief Economics Correspondent Emma Alberici was doing some routine research via Twitter when she stumbled into a furore. Infamous…
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News
Skin a potential student stress detector
Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture and the…
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In The Classroom
Helping girls feel safe on the streets at night
Despite movements like Reclaim the Night, which began in Leeds in 1977, women's night-time safety remains an issue. In Australia, the…
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News
Should world leaders’ grades be public property?
The definition of intelligence is complicated. The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as "the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments…
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In The Classroom
Factors to consider in creating a play-based program for early learners
The campaign by the Early Learning and Care Council of Australia to encourage state and federal governments to fund two…
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Policy & Reform
Parliament hears from teachers: ‘we’re actually building people’
The government inquiry into the status of the teaching profession is finally hearing from its subjects in person. In Sydney this…
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News
Idea of orchid and dandelion children regerminates
In Swedish, orkidebarn means 'orchid child'. It refers to those who are more sensitive. Maskrosbarn, 'dandelion child', on the other hand, means the…
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In The Classroom
Is a class on personal branding for children a recipe for burnt out adults?
In one of 2019's first viral essays, How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, Ann Helen Petersen wrote, "For many millennials, a social media…
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Policy & Reform
‘School wellbeing is not compulsory yoga’: fed up teachers air grievances
School wellbeing is not: Compulsory yoga - when a teacher wants to sleep ? Cakes in the staffroom - when…
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School Management
Australia’s principal crisis: How to improve mental health and mentally prepare principals for the top job
Amid growing concerns about the mental health of those in the teaching profession, a recent article in The Age underscored…
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