DARWIN, May 8 - Federal Education Minister Peter Garrett says his door is open and he's willing to negotiate with ...
Door open on NT schools funding: Garrett
DARWIN, May 8 - Federal Education Minister Peter Garrett says his door is open and he's willing to negotiate with ...
Children are living in abject poverty amid an Aboriginal housing crisis following years of neglect, a conference has been told.
As school refusal continues to contribute to escalating and unacceptably high school absence rates, new research has also revealed students experiencing avoidable poor hygiene conditions miss around 13.8 more school days each year.
Fads, influential academics with misguided ideas, and poor standards around what constitutes ‘evidence-based’ maths teaching have derailed student outcomes for years, a leading expert in maths education says.
Wearable devices in the classroom present serious privacy and data security risks for schools, a legal expert has warned, yet inconsistent rules about their use are clouding the scene for school leaders across the country.
Australia’s school system is actively widening learning gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged children, damning new analysis drawing on 17 years’ worth of NAPLAN data has revealed.
Rising Indigenous employment is being driven by women who are better qualified than men and more likely to attend school and avoid the justice system, new research has revealed.
The stereotype of the gifted child as a confident, straight-A student sitting at the front of the class does not always match the reality in Australian classrooms, and as many experienced educators know, the consequences of under-identification of...
Schools generate enormous amounts of data and information, including assessment results, attendance records, wellbeing surveys, classroom observations, and teacher feedback.
An in-principle agreement which will see Victoria’s public school teachers pocket pay rises of up to 32.4 per cent has been struck between the Allan Government and the Australian Education Union – but some argue the proposal fails to deliver bette...
For Matilda Pearce, a school day might involve online classes in an outback farmhouse, doing maths in a paddock, practising spelling words in the car or reading a book on the long trip to town.
