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28/08/2024

NAPLAN: Time to think differently

EduResearch Matters August 29 2024 by Sophie Rudolph It’s not the results of NAPLAN that are the problem. It is NAPLAN testing itself. These standardised tests contribute to the maintenance of

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03/07/2024

Literature Symposium 2024 Series!

We're back with a brand new Literature Symposium Series! The 2024 Literature Symposium kicks off with a presentation by The Foundation for Learning and Literacy. Featuring Jo Padgham, Robyn Ewing and Neville Williams Boney,

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25/09/2023

Being seen: Braille books for children to appear in stores, classrooms

SMH September 24, 2023 by Mary Ward A new series of children’s books, funded by Vision Australia, are the first children’s Braille books to be sold in Australian mainstream bookstores and

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15/09/2023

Damning OECD report amplifies calls to boost public school funding

The Educator 15 Sept, 2023 by Brett Henebery Australia continues to significantly underperform against most OECD countries when it comes to investing in public education, according to new data from the

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30/08/2023

What happened to Gonski’s schools?

National Affairs What happened to Gonski’s schools? Successive reviews of school education have promised a brighter future, but how many of them have gone back to see what went wrong last time? Inside

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28/07/2023

Class Warfare

Editorial in the Saturday Paper July 22-28, 2023 Gonski laid out a solution more than a decade ago. It was hardly radical. He is a man known for his circumspection. Yet

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26/04/2023

ISTP 2023

25 April 2023 Summit to focus on key global education issues at EI 30th anniversary The 13th annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession convened in Washington, DC on April 25th,

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19/12/2022

The future of education: are the real needs of students being neglected in favour of grades and test scores?

Equal Times 14 December 2022 by José Alvarez Diaz ...However, as Sahlberg explains, studies show that education models of this kind have thus far failed to improve the quality of teaching.

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02/12/2022

It’s time: Pat Thomson reflects on a (postponed) Radford

EduResearch Matters AARE by Pat Thompson December 1, 2022 One way or another, my research always concerns a “wicked” problem. I simply want to know how schooling can be made better

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14/09/2022

2022 Symposium

The next presentation in the 2022 Literature Symposium is now available for you to view online! This presentation features ACTA on behalf of ATESOL discussing the role of rich literature in

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