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Easy-to-use adaptive immersive technologies incorporating augmented reality (AR) can motivate learning, social engagement and cognitive development in early childhood, new research suggests.
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.
More than one in three young carers are missing school each week and over two thirds’ grades are being affected by their caring responsibilities, new data has revealed.
Student disengagement remains one of the most pressing issues facing Australian schools and until now it has largely been measured by absence data, however new research reveals that warning signs appear well before students stop showing up, with a...
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.
A new national initiative is aiming to put school-aged Australian music creators – and their teachers – in the spotlight, with the launch of the NUMAs (Next Up Music Awards) and paid Youth Intern Program.
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.
