Education
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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Education
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
Opinion
Education
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
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Education
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
Education
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
Opinion
Education
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
Education
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
Education
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
Opinion
Education
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
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Education
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
Opinion
Education
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