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Commercially-motivated influencers in the manopshere are indoctrinating Australian boys, teaching them to reject the authority of teachers and the ‘woke’ school system, one expert has warned.
The excessive and unstructured use of AI in Australian schools risks derailing students’ acquisition of foundational skills and knowledge and is setting young brains up for atrophy, an expert has warned.
A WA Government initiative to divert young children from crime is being trialled in Armadale, a south-eastern suburb of Perth, and Geraldton a coastal city 425 kms north of the state’s capital.
A questionnaire tool to identify the support needs of neurodivergent children and young people ahead of them potentially receiving a formal assessment, is being trialled with exciting implications.
Australian Education Union (AEU) members in Victoria’s public schools have voted to take stop-work action over low pay and excessive workloads.
It's as easy as disengaging a button or key but it's taken a long time to spread the message that idling engines near schools is a danger to children's health.
Parents and teachers have called out the chaos of NAPLAN testing after a widespread outage wreaked havoc across thousands of schools.
Commercially-motivated influencers in the manopshere are indoctrinating Australian boys, teaching them to reject the authority of teachers and the ‘woke’ school system, one expert has warned.
It’s easy to talk about cost of living as something remote and theoretical, with casual statements about belt tightening and cutting back on non-essentials.
NAPLAN season is here again this week, with technical glitches proving stumbling blocks for many, but while much of the focus as ever is on student performance, one education expert says more attention needs to be paid to its impact on teachers.
