Australian households contribute way more to the costs of children’s schooling than the OECD average. This is due to the numbers of students attending private schools and paying high fees.
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New South Wales private school teachers are pushing for a pay rise with the help of their union. They want up to 7% more than their public school colleagues.
Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year.
Measuring student engagement through online platforms may sound like a good idea. But we need a much clearer understanding of what we are actually measuring here.
Non-Indigenous teachers are often hesitant to teach First Nations content for fear of making a mistake. Our new research shows how they can overcome these concerns.
Along with becoming a status symbol, water bottles are now considered an essential item to pack for school.
Reading and writing should be taught together again.
After yet another student is banned for having the “wrong” type of hair at school, new research shows this is part of a wider pattern to enforce norms around gender, class and race.
It is easy to assume students will be able to write easily and effectively using a keyboard. They are growing up surrounded by technology. But new research shows children write better by hand.
Our ongoing research has found sexism, sexual harassment and misogyny are rife in Australian schools. The federal government needs to lead a national campaign against this.
There are big gaps in the way schools approach gender, sexuality and respect. Teaching all students to be ‘porn literate’ is one way we can help make them safer.
Since February, researchers have been surveying South Australian teachers about sexist views among their students.
Since COVID there has been an expansion in online options for school students. This includes individual classes and complete distance education.
Students with disability are experts in themselves and their needs. But we found they are often not consulted by their teachers about what helps them at school.
In our new research we looked at what impact breakfast has on students’ motivation to learn and their academic achievement.
We believe no other intervention has been so thoroughly tested in Australian schools or amassed such a comprehensive body of evidence.
Research on streaming maths classes shows we need to think much more carefully about this very common practice.
Unlike the traditional method of comparing Indigenous students with non-Indigenous students, a new approach compares Indigenous students with their Indigenous peers.
Imagine if you enrolled your child in swimming lessons but instead of a qualified swimming instructor, they were taught freestyle technique by a soccer coach.
New research finds teachers tend to have tailored approaches to help students performing below standard, but not for their gifted peers.
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Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
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