Nine new books written in Kriol have been launched to help boost Indigenous literacy. Students from St Joseph’s Catholic College in Katherine, Northern Territory, took their first trip to the big smoke, visiting the Sydney Opera House for Indigenous Literacy ...

In an age when the term 'fake news' is flung about by politicians and the public alike, students today need critical literacy skills more than ever, an Australian researcher has argued. To help this along, Professor Kathy Mills from Australian ...

Months before controversial NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes called for NAPLAN to be scrapped last week, change.org user Sparkt started an online petition in this vein. In the interim, a retired MIT professor slammed the tests, calling them "bizarre". Some Australian experts joined him; ...

It is very difficult to dispute the need for teachers to possess sounds literacy skills. Communication and literacy are central to teaching success and personal literacy competency is an obvious prerequisite for much of a teacher’s work. Not only do ...

In August we learned that there were NAPLAN triumphs and concerns: overall, reading and numeracy were up, yet writing had declined. Now, with ACARA's release of the 2017 NAPLAN National Report, long-term demographic trends have come to light. Since 2008, Indigenous ...

It's been five years since the last – and Australia's inaugural – Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results were released. Now, with the 2016 crop divulged, we've improved, but not by much. Just 16 per cent of the over ...

Like reading and writing, data literacy must be developed early in a child’s education. In today’s digital economy, making sense of data is paramount to organisations far and wide. As such, data and analytics skills are in demand across all ...

It may be the HSC’s 50th birthday, but not everyone's celebrating. An English module called 'the craft of writing' will soon be mandatory for all year 12 students. In this back-to-basics approach, spelling, grammar and vocabulary are emphasised. On the flipside, context ...

Australia is "dropping the ball" in teaching writing skills to primary students, a literacy expert has claimed. Dr Noella Mackenzie from CSU’s school of education said keyboarding skills, too, have been neglected by the education system, leaving children academically disadvantaged. ...

Say what you want about Where the Forest Meets the Sea or Storm Boy, because overall, we beat the English at their own linguistic learning game. Dr Paul Gardner from Curtin University’s School of Education has found we are better ...