A new report details how student absences are changing post-pandemic. It also shows how Australia can look to England for ideas on what to do.
- School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
The Victorian Auditor-General has just released an audit of $1.2 billion tutoring program designed to help struggling students post-COVID.
Simply setting aside time for collaboration doesn’t always lead to better outcomes for teachers or students. Effective collaboration requires skilful leadership and a common language.
Open-plan classrooms can be very noisy. And this is bad for all students, especially those with hearing or learning difficulties.
New Grattan Institute analysis shows there are more than 100,000 teaching assistants in classrooms across the country.
The national average in literacy and numeracy has been unaffected by 2020’s disruptions. But will have to wait until the full NAPLAN data is released to understand the affect on vulnerable students.
New South Wales and Victoria are investing $250 and $337 million respectively for disadvantaged students who fell behind in 2020 to have extra tutors.
Not only is repeating a year unhelpful, it’s one of the few educational interventions that does a great deal of harm.
Expecting the My School website to improve learning outcomes assumes that parents will see a drop in results and move their child to the other school down the road - but markets in education just don’t work like this.
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