Reconciliation Week is a special time. It provides an opportunity to both think about what still needs to change in Indigenous Australians’ lives and also celebrate what has been achieved. Nicole Wade’s story belongs in the latter. The school principal, ...
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US school district to test facial recognition system
New York public schools will next week roll out a facial recognition system in a bid to keep students and staff safe. The Lockport City School District will test the Aegis system, which leverages a database of individuals and sends ...
More »Is this the end of EPAC?
The NSW Employee Performance and Conduct unit (EPAC) was under siege this week with critics of the government unit calling it “opaque”, “slow” and “lacking procedural fairness”. The unit, which investigates misconduct in schools, has also been accused of using ...
More »Elite hearts club: private school only dating app launches in Australia
Horrified at the thought of accidentally dating a pleb? Unsure whether that Tinder Adonis with perfect arms is of a lower pedigree than you? Darling, fret not. The market has answered. Last week, a private school-only dating app landed in ...
More »Are your school’s anti-bullying campaigns making matters worse?
However well-intentioned, some school anti-bullying campaigns actually make the issue worse. That’s the warning from University of Queensland researcher Karyn Healy, unpacked in a piece for The Conversation. Some of the problem, Healy said, stems from the fact most anti-bullying programs ...
More »Teachers drone on in the classroom
An environmental scientist is encouraging schools to consider introducing drones to the classroom. Speaking ahead of the Independent Schools Queensland State Forum, Dr Catherine Ball said drone technology is becoming more accessible and user-friendly and added its potential for schools ...
More »Mental disorders “significant cause” of student absence from school
One in seven school students are affected by mental health disorders and it’s keeping them away from school, experts have shown. A research team, from the Universities of Western Australia and Adelaide, looked at data from the 2013–2014 Australian Child ...
More »The times they are a changin’
Along with hunger, democracy and environmental sustainability, the question of how to fix the education system is a wicked problem, according to Alto Director Andrew O’Keeffe. As he puts it, there are no “silver bullets” – they are all “huge, ...
More »Week in review: NAPLAN, streaming and teachers fighting back
This story was published on 19 May. Hi, I’m Wade Zaglas, education editor for Education Review. Today we're starting our weekly round up of the key stories and issues of the week. You can either read the summary or listen ...
More »Union calls for NAPLAN cancelling after online glitches leave students in tears
Technical glitches have plagued NAPLAN online from day one of the 2019 nation-wide testing. Fifty per cent of schools have so far made the transition from pen and paper tests (up from 15 per cent last year), with thousands of ...
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