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International Education: How to build a strategy with integrity
The draft International Education and Skills Strategic Framework, released late last month, calls for integrity. We suggest this …
How research-based news articles (like this one) accelerate research impact
Translating research findings into practice or policy change is notoriously slow despite the time, effort and funding invested …
Teacher readiness in hard-to-staff schools – here’s what we know now
In current policy debates about graduate teacher readiness in Australian schools, one central question is often overlooked: how …
Promising news: how young men think about Andrew Tate and what he sells
Recent media and public discourse in Australia and globally are replete with concerns about young men’s online behaviours, …
Now read this: the story so far
Our best read blog of the year so far? Nicole Brunker on evidence-based practice, a scathing critique of …
Love this: Creativity Can Be Measured – in Diverse Ways. What we can learn from PISA
The latest on PISA Creative Thinking results: Kylie Murphy: PISA results show thinking can be cultivated. Australian teachers …
Fourth in the whole world! Yet the government doesn’t care
Since PISA released its first creative thinking test results last week, there has been a flurry of commentary …
Fourth in the world in creative thinking: how good!?!?
For the first time, global PISA data includes an assessment of fifteen-year-old students’ ‘creative thinking’. The 2022 results for this new measure are now out – and the implications challenge some beliefs about teaching creative thinking. Australia ranks fourth among the eighty-one participating countries. Australia’s ranking on creative thinking positions us just behind Singapore, South Korea, …
16 Years a HALT: Reflections of a Highly Accomplished Teacher
I received some long-awaited news last week, and it came as a simple enough e-mail. After ten years, …
We have a massive teaching shortage. Here’s how to fix it
The Federal Department of Education predicts an alarming teacher shortage of 4,100 teachers by 2025. It is now …