It’s been almost five years since Georgie Burt lost her son Zane Mellor in the Hillcrest Primary School jumping tragedy.
The two academics behind the newly-established Australian Centre for the Public Understanding of Education (ACPUE) have said the Centre does not aim to ‘defeat’ AERO – despite suggestions to the contrary – but rather seeks to critique the evidence...
Dedicated ethics classes should be a core feature of Australian schooling, a researcher has posed, with a sweeping study finding they produce students with improved moral reasoning and a desire to do the right thing.
Current research shows that aggressive, entitled, and abusive behaviour from a minority of parents is a growing and significant source of stress, burnout, and staff departures among Australian teachers and principals.
Australia’s education ministers are increasingly asking if there is too much screen time in schools.
There is no evidence a decade-old Victorian program supporting young people at risk of offending has moved the needle on youth crime, a review has found.
As Australia looks to evidence-based teaching to improve student outcomes, UNSW researcher Dr Robin Nagy says research should inform teachers’ decisions – not dictate a one-size-fits-all approach.
Families of children killed in a jumping castle tragedy say they were given wrong information in the aftermath amid difficulties with hospital identification.
More than 60 per cent of kids say their legitimate chronic pain symptoms are being ignored or dismissed in schools and in excess of two thirds are being told their pain is just anxiety.
The intensifying task of logging student behaviour and individual learning needs via online portals is sucking up teachers’ time, taking a cognitive toll, and creating debilitating ‘blockages’ in their daily work flow, new research has found.
