Now Labor has been returned for a second term, what should its priorities be for schools?
- Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
The results of the reforms will not be felt for some time. Underfunded schools will continue to be underfunded for years to come.
My School is updated each year with information about every school in Australia to help parents understand “the performance of schools over time”.
The new Liberal leader says education is a top priority and ‘activists’ are driving ‘non-core’ subjects in schools.
Motivation plays a large part in educational success. Of students who sat the PISA test in 2018, 73% indicated they would have put in more effort had the scores counted towards their school marks.
Australia’s curriculum is being reviewed for the first time since 2014. The proposed changes include positive additions to acknowledge our many cultures. But there are some reductive changes, too.
This week’s NAPLAN results show the writing skill of students is actually dropping as they progress from Year 3 through to Year 9.
There is no evidence to suggest that vouchers are simpler, fairer and more transparent than current funding models.
My School data does not show the quality of teaching, and school comparisons and rankings can be misleading.
Rather than leaping to conclusions about a failing education system, we need to look at what the data tells us about student performance at a state level to help us make more informed decisions.
Research shows linking teachers’ pay to performance has little impact on student achievement. Similar tests to the ones the government proposes for young children now face a backlash in the UK and US.
The federal government has argued consistently that more money does not lead to better educational outcomes. But is that right?
There is a lot of misinformation about how Australia prepares teachers to teach reading and writing in schools. So here’s how it really works.
Music has always played a role in our understanding of the universe. Listening to gravitational waves confirms thousands of years of metaphysical investigation.
There is little evidence to suggest that testing teaching students on their literacy and numeracy will have any impact on the quality of teaching and learning in Australian classrooms.
A new report finds children in care are less likely to achieve the national minimum standards in literacy and numeracy – with the gap growing as they get older.
In a report released this week, the Foundation for Young Australians claims that up to 70% of young people are currently preparing for jobs that will no longer exist in the future.
While the NT consistently performs lowest on national and international tests, with a long tail of low achievement, the ACT consistently performs highest.
Fairfax press has reported the federal government’s green paper on reforming the federation has suggested four possible scenarios for school funding: Give states and territories complete funding responsibility…
You could be forgiven for thinking that education was left largely untouched in Tuesday’s federal budget. But the tinkerings to last year’s education budget still mean a “fail” for education funding.
NAPLAN is going to be marked by computers from 2017. Can an algorithm understand the complex and emotional writing techniques we want our children to be learning?
Accusations of Australian universities churning out poor teaching graduates are false and the evidence says otherwise.
We all want young children to be given the very best opportunities to become successful, engaged and passionate readers. The teaching of reading is constantly mired, however, in a tired old debate between…
This year’s update on Closing the Gap presents a picture similar to 2014 in education - there is much work still to be done to improve educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students…
According to recent media reports, a new study shows an alarming number of aspiring teachers have lower literacy levels than the school students they will be teaching. This coincides with a series of articles…
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