Newsroom by Peter O’Connor 13 August, 2024
Learning is a complex process, and binary, either-or strategies will not get the results children deserve
…Literacy and numeracy success is one of the problems our children face, but it links to everything else impacting them; inequity in outcomes is consequent and reinforced by and through social inequities. We need to understand more fully the impact Covid has had on the mental health of our children. We need to find ways to attract more people into a teaching career and keep them there, and it would help if we could find a consensus that transcends political parties so there isn’t constant churn in the sector. We need to find ways to talk about education without the inflammatory language of crisis. It is time for a grown-up conversation.
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