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Schools turn to mindfulness to tackle student anxiety

Schools turn to mindfulness to tackle student anxiety

Instead of going straight into their next lesson after recess or lunch, students at a school in Sydney's west spend up to half an hour on mindfulness.

  • by Pallavi Singhal

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The Gonski plan: an online tool to stop children falling through the cracks
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The Gonski plan: an online tool to stop children falling through the cracks

The centrepiece of Gonski 2.0 is an online tool to track student progress - and stop children slipping through the cracks.

  • by Jordan Baker
Winner takes all: how private schools make everyone nastier
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Winner takes all: how private schools make everyone nastier

Unless we want a rich-poor apartheid, we need to stop giving the fat little piggies in private schools such a hefty, gold-plated leg up.

  • by Elizabeth Farrelly
Catholic alternative to Safe Schools distributed to Melbourne schools
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Catholic alternative to Safe Schools distributed to Melbourne schools

Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Melbourne have for the first time been given resources to help them support same-sex attracted and transgender students.

  • by Henrietta Cook
NSW rejection a death knell for NAPLAN: teachers
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NSW rejection a death knell for NAPLAN: teachers

The federal government is digging its heels in saying it's an important tool for parents, but NSW and teachers want NAPLAN gone.

  • by Jordan Baker
Andrew Laming: this is what I really meant about teachers' pay
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Andrew Laming: this is what I really meant about teachers' pay

My call to pay teachers for every hour they work was misrepresented by vested interests as an attack on the profession.

  • by Andrew Laming
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Curtin's 'crafternoons': Pet rocks and play time for Perth's best minds
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Curtin's 'crafternoons': Pet rocks and play time for Perth's best minds

Friendship bracelets, pet rocks and glitter paint. It's all part of this university's offerings for students.

  • by Nathan Hondros
Pay deal 'imminent' for Catholic teachers in ACT, NSW after dispute breakthrough
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Pay deal 'imminent' for Catholic teachers in ACT, NSW after dispute breakthrough

The new pay deal will cap meeting hours for teachers and increase mentoring for early career educators.

  • by Sherryn Groch
The bell rings for another round in the education war
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The bell rings for another round in the education war

Five minutes after businessman David Gonski dropped his review into schooling excellence – let’s call it Gonski Part 2 – the grown-ups were at it again.

  • by Matt Holden
NAPLAN is being used, abused and must be urgently dumped: Stokes
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NAPLAN is being used, abused and must be urgently dumped: Stokes

NSW is calling on the federal government to urgently replace the NAPLAN test, saying it is being misused and abused.

  • by Jordan Baker
Encounter made me realise I was wrong to oppose Safe Schools
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Encounter made me realise I was wrong to oppose Safe Schools

Young trans people believed in me once. Then I dashed their hopes and broke their hearts. Redemption came from an unlikely quarter.

  • by Catherine McGregor