early childhood
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Policy & Reform
Billion dollar babies: the cost of not finishing school
The following does not contain typos: disengaged 24-year-olds cost taxpayers $69 billion over a lifetime. This is one of the…
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Boosting poor PISA results starts in preschool: ACER
The Program for International Student Assessment⯠(PISA) is a standardised literacy, numeracy and science test of 15-year-olds across 72 countries, conducted by the OECD. Yet it doesnât measure rote learning.…
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Opinion: early-childhood instruction needed to improve TIMSS rankings
The release of the Trends in International Maths and Science Study international rankings for Year 4 and Year 8 has produced a…
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Opinion
Opinion: Formal schooling can wait
Over recent decades, in many countries across the world, there has been increasing concern about the disparity in life expectations…
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Latest Tas school start age proposal will âconfuse parentsâ: Labor
Kids in Tasmania can now attend school from age 4½, but they donât have to, the Tasmanian Government announced last…
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‘Talking Eds’, Episode 12: Childcare scams funding terrorism, #LetThemStay and old age myths
In a packed program this week, Loren from Early Learning Review talks about how childcare rorting might be funding terrorism,…
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Early-learning groups say they know why NAPLAN flatlined
Itâs turned out to be a bad investment: ârecordâ government school funding hasnât yielded concordantly higher numeracy and literacy results,…
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Study backs tough measures to keep kids in school
A University of Melbourne study has backed tough government measures to
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Play School teaches kids about Twitter
Play School presenter Matt Passmore tweeted, blogged, texted, emailed and checked his
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Early childcare gets a tick
Parents who fear sending their babies to childcare too early can rest easier, according to Charles Sturt University research.
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