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Is the NAPLAN results delay about politics or precision?
The decision announced yesterday by ACARA to delay the release of preliminary NAPLAN data is perplexing. The justification …
How to fix education: cut tests, defund private schools
In the final part in our series of what the next government should do to save Australian education, …
If only we really wanted to solve the problems
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
Learning is not a race but politicians think it is. Now wellbeing is in peril.
Pasi Salhberg is right, we need to prioritise wellbeing during the endless lockdowns many of us are enduring. …
Why appeasing Latham won’t make our students any more remarkable
Are our schools making the kids we think we should? The tussle between politics and education continues and Latham is just the blunt end of what is now the assumed modus operandi of school policy in Australia. Many readers of this blog no doubt will have noticed a fair amount of public educational discussion about NSW’s …
Australian curriculum review: strengthened but still a long way from an amazing curriculum for all Australian students
There is much to admire in the proposed revisions to the Australian Curriculum, which were released for public consultation this week. I’d give it a B+. The curriculum content organisers and core ideas have been revised to ensure that they are more closely aligned, with some trimming of content to enable greater depth of study. …
Surprising findings from new analysis of declining NAPLAN writing test results
Despite the considerable annual investments of money and school resources to hold the NAPLAN tests, almost no research …
Q:Which major party will fully fund public schools? A:None. Here’s what’s happening
You would be forgiven for thinking that policy related to schooling is not a major issue in Australia. …
NAPLAN is not a system-destroying monster. Here’s why we should keep our national literacy and numeracy tests
Australia’s numeracy and literacy testing across the country in years 3, 7, and 9 is a fairly bog …
How school principals respond to govt policies on NAPLAN. (Be surprised how some are resisting)
School principals in Australia are increasingly required to find a balance between improving student achievement on measurable outcomes (such as NAPLAN) and focusing energies on things that can’t as easily be measured; such as how well a school teaches creative and critical thinking, how it connects with its local community or how collaboratively teachers on …