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‘Another wake-up call’: experts weigh in on major student data breach

Experts have raised concerns about the implications of a major data breach which has seen hackers gain access to the personal data of an unknown number of current and past Victorian public school ...
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Soaring school costs forcing indebted parents to work more: new research

Australian families are reconsidering whether to have more children and are relying on others for help to pay for education ...
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Popular author’s novels axed following child abuse allegations

Novels by award-winning writer Craig Silvey are being purged from school reading lists across the nation after the author was ...
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Noel Pearson reveals Direct Instruction’s power to close the achievement gap

More than 700 educators from across the nation have convened for compelling webinar titled 'The Power of Direct Instruction', presented by founder and director of Good to Great Schools Australia (GGSA ...
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‘The evidence is clear’: Vic Govt commits to explicit instruction and structured literacy

For some time Australia’s ‘education state’ has come under fire for its lack of commitment to drive evidence-based teaching practice at scale, but today Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll has ...
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Two years after royal commission, new report finds no progress for students with disability

Students with disability are still being excluded, bullied, and denied meaningful support at school almost two years after the Disability Royal Commission called for urgent reform, a new report has ...
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Developing a ‘deepfake crisis response plan’: here’s how one school has approached it

If a deepfake were to target anyone at St Dominic’s Priory College, a clear and comprehensive plan of action would quickly kick into gear. Created by Joanne Villis, Director of Technology Enrichment ...
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‘We’re running a marathon’: influential survey unmasks scale of Aussie teacher workloads

Australian teachers are clocking up 52-hour working weeks on average, with some working up to 60 hours or even more, new national data has revealed. Released yesterday, AITSL’s Australian Teacher ...
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‘Look, cover, say, write, fail’: expert urges schools to ditch rote spelling lists

Teachers should scrap weekly spelling lists that rely on rote learning and instead explicitly teach children spelling rules and conventions, a literacy researcher has urged.
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NSW Govt dumps Mark Latham's ‘Parental Rights Bill’

One Nation MLC Mark Latham’s highly controversial ‘Parental Rights Bill’ has been officially rejected by the New South Wales Government. The Bill would have forced schools to inform parents of any ...
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Don’t buy into Building Thinking Classrooms in maths, it’s a fad: school leader

Australian schools are at risk of falling for an increasingly popular method of maths teaching that lacks a credible evidence base and is rooted in ineffective discovery learning, a prominent school ...