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Opinion
Do multi-school organisations work?
Tasmania is trialling multi‑school organisations to lift student outcomes, drawing heavily on England’s multi‑academy trust model despite limited evidence of…
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Opinion
Can the multi-school, top down approach work?
Tasmania is trialling multi‑school organisations to lift student outcomes, but critics warn the model mirrors England’s controversial multi‑academy trusts, where…
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Health and Wellbeing
Schools score poorly in encouraging physical activity, new data shows
Less than a quarter of Australian children and young people are meeting the national physical activity guidelines for their age…
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In The Classroom
The road to quality use of evidence in schools
Schools value research more than they actually use it. In its raw form, after all, it can be notoriously abstruse.…
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Health and Wellbeing
‘No employer in Australia can tell women to wear dresses’: so why can’t school girls wear shorts?
Ever tried to play chasey in a skirt? The thing flaps and billows like a clumsy tornado about your knees.…
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In The Classroom
It’s near-definitive: students who study creative arts get better grades
Would you steer a Year 6, 7 or 8 student away from 'soft' subjects like art and music to harder…
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In The Classroom
Study suggests need for greater media literacy
Although, in a given day, 80 per cent of children consumed news from at least one source, only 16 per…
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In The Classroom
Kids become better poets in nature
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. The first two lines of…
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Health and Wellbeing
Kids as young as four are fair: study
‘It’s not fair’ is a refrain whined by children the world over. Though a study has found seven-year-olds may comprehend…
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