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School Management
Climate change is scorching schools, endangering kids
President-elect of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has signalled his intention to further deforest the Amazon. In a campaign speech last year,…
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Policy & Reform
Questioning the paradox of equity in education
I have been worried for some time about the concept of equity and how it is usually understood in relation…
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Top Stories
Two in five teachers don’t know how to teach soft skills
As the Mitchell Institute prefaced last month, soft skills, straightforward as they seem, can be difficult to teach. Now, there's…
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In The Classroom
Autism friendship belief challenged by research
This year, the international journal Autism replaced its cover art of overlapping grey and red puzzle pieces with scattered circles, after a team of editors decided that…
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In The Classroom
How to help students suffering from ‘math trauma’
Math trauma, the issue highlighted in the US edition of The Conversation, is real. If a student never masters irrational…
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In The Classroom
Simplifying professional development: opting for quality not quantity
The most passionate teachers are also enthusiastic learners; not content to let their practice become stale and always looking for…
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News
Brazilian democracy dies as students urged to snitch on teachers
Just over ten years ago, Brazil was a global beacon for development. Now, with the resent election of populist, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro,…
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In The Classroom
Why students are skipping school this month
Beginning Thursday last week, students across Australia walked, and continue to trot off school grounds – for a few hours, to a…
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Techguide
Instagram now ‘proactively detects bullying’ in photos and comments
A C-Suite shakeup at Instagram has resulted in a windfall for Adam Mosseri – and for bullying victims. Mosseri, formerly…
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Policy & Reform
Public education campaigner to take on Abbott for Warringah
If Tony Abbott is as "useless" as indigenous leaders believe him to be, he might struggle to hold his seat of…
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