Last week's hand-wringing over the comparability of online NAPLAN tests with paper versions is moot. That is, according to one of the architects of PISA, Professor Doctor Eckhard Klieme. Klieme, a professor of education research (with a background in maths and psychology) ...

School's out for summer School's out forever For an increasing number of Australian high schoolers, Alice Cooper's lyrics resonate. They especially do so with 15-year-olds from lower SES backgrounds, according to a new ACER report. Based on PISA data, the report collated ...

What does it take to increase public school enrolments? A Chaser turned anti-waste advocate? The Public Education Foundation (PEF) is betting on Craig Reucassel and other high-profile, high-achieving Australians to inspire the return of students to government secondary schools, via their #ProudlyPublic campaign. ...

The teenage angst anthem Creep, by Radiohead, contains the following lyrics: I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. The British rock band could have been alluding to the latest batch of ...

$20 billion could relieve almost all world hunger for a year. It's also the amount Australia lost due to educational inequality in schools between 2009 and 2015 – so avers the Public Education Foundation in its latest issues paper, What Price the Gap? Education ...

Twelve-hour days and big classes are realities that Singapore's teachers face daily. Such conditions create stressful work environments which impede their capacity to live up to their global reputation for teaching excellence. They are usually too exhausted to be the classroom innovators they ...

A wicked problem, in academia, means a thorny one - one without an obvious solution. In the lead up to the International Day of People with a Disability, Dr David Armstrong has identified four of these in Western special education. ...

Australian students are some of the world’s best collaborative problem-solvers, according to a report released yesterday. The PISA report included an assessment collaborative problem solving for the first time, and ranked Australia 10th out of 52 countries, behind Canada and New Zealand ...

Along with a relatively small number of countries such as New Zealand, Singapore and Finland and Scotland, Australia is unusual in that, as well as a focus on knowledge and skills, its national curriculum explicitly requires schools to teach certain ...

Is there a crisis in Australian science and mathematics education? UNE and QUT academics posed this question in 2014, in their 45-page thesis, The Continuing Decline Of Science And Mathematics Enrolments In Australian High Schools. They definitively answered 'yes'. Three years ...