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On Wednesday, Queensland’s public school teachers will walk off the job in their first statewide strike in 16 years.
A sociologist interviewed 100 Philadelphia 12th graders and found their Black educators provided unique insights and support for planning life after graduation.
People spend less on groceries, restaurants and public activities for months after a fatal school shooting − costing communities millions.
Serious learner misconduct is a common, everyday problem in some schools.
For many of us, calling our teachers by their first names would have been unthinkable. But some teachers are changing the centuries-old practice of formal names.
In a study of 57 Australian teachers, many shared emotionally-charged accounts of being put in impossible situations at work.
Australia has no nationally consistent approach to track bullying. Schools also need accurate data to understand if interventions are working.
Children spend thousands of hours in school playgrounds. A lot of this time does not have the same levels of teacher preparation and supervision as classrooms.
A microaggression could be saying, ‘you don’t look disabled’ to a student with an invisible disability or not learning how to pronounce a students’ name.
The more than $1 billion cut hits already strapped schools and food banks.
New rules prompt schools to respond to harmful behaviour after hours. This makes them responsible for students after the bell and beyond.
It’s not uncommon to hear of schools having more than 2,000 students, particularly for high schools.
Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive handwriting.
Now Labor has been returned for a second term, what should its priorities be for schools?
A new executive order would create new guidelines on school discipline, suggesting the current ones are ‘discriminatory.’
A child protection law is failing the learners it was designed to safeguard.
Fewer people in Detroit are experiencing homelessness – but more kids are. Of those kids, a growing number have no safe place to sleep inside.
Technology has huge benefits in education, but kids need to learn how to use it properly.
Lesson plans incorporating shark fossil teeth help prepare kids to live and work in an AI world.
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Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
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