Two million Australian children could be risking their education by having to learn at home during the coronavirus crisis. Research papers commissioned by the federal government back its push to return children to schools as soon as possible. Most states ...

What happens to our education system after COVID-19? Who knows. Teachers, for one, certainly don’t. Perhaps, that’s the problem with our system.  What we do know is that teachers won’t be left to their own devices – even though we are ...

As physical structures close down during the COVID-19 crisis, a plethora of virtual spaces are opening up, offering portals into worlds otherwise inaccessible. It took only two weeks for Earth School to open its virtual doors. Initiated by the UN ...

South Australian parents have been encouraged to send their children to school next week with health officials declaring it safe for term two to start. Chief public health officer Nicola Spurrier has written to parents and school staff across the ...

Professor John Hattie’s Visible Learning framework needs no introduction to educators. It has been used in schools across Australia for years now to deliver consistent, evidence-based learning outcomes and is the culmination of synthesizing more than 1,500 meta-analyses comprising more ...

Michael Lawrence is a Victorian teacher and author of the forthcoming book - TESTING 3,2,1: What Australian Education Can Learn From Finland: A Teacher’s Perspective. Now that he's teaching almost entirely online, Lawrence argues that old disciplinarian models of behaviour ...

Students aren't as empathetic as they once were and have less ability to focus. Those were some of the findings from the Gonski Institute’s Growing Up Digital report. The group surveyed almost 2000 teachers and school leaders across Australia and ...

The Victorian government has partnered with the ABC to give primary school students access to interactive learning activities at home. The first set of 15 learning activities are screening on ABC ME this school week and have been uploaded to ...

“My job just got a whole lot more complicated.” That was one New South Wales teacher’s reaction to the announcement by premier Gladys Berejiklian that the state’s students will soon return to school for face-to-face teaching in a staggered fashion. ...

The phrase ‘home schooling’ is being used to describe what parents in some states in Australia and globally are experiencing, with the temporary cessation of formal face-to-face schooling in lieu of remote modes of learning. Undoubtedly, some students will find ...