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Remote learning security concern after threatening strangers breach online classrooms
Incidents last year included one in which an abusive stranger entered an online Google Classroom session and attempted to engage in what was described as concerning sexual behaviour.
- by Petra Stock
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Plea to reopen special schools amid ‘devastating’ loss of learning
Students in specialist schools were at the front of the queue when children made a staged return to face-to-face learning last year, but they have not been given the same priority status in this lockdown.
- by Adam Carey
Opinion
Education
To improve Australian schools, cut-and-paste won’t cut it
Adopting the practices of high-performing nations on PISA will not, on its own, improve Australia’s educational performance.
- by Peter Adams
Sum of all fears: Why Australia’s maths problem is getting worse
A maths war is erupting as traditionalists and progressives argue about what students should know, and the best way to teach them.
- by Jordan Baker
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Education
All Sydney students to have guaranteed access to a co-ed high school
Families in Sydney’s single-sex public school catchments have been lobbying for co-ed alternatives, and their campaign has succeeded.
- by Jordan Baker
‘We’re like sacrificial lambs’: Unvaccinated teachers fear classroom return
Teacher Michelle Parker said schools had been blindsided by the state government’s decision to send all regional students and Melbourne VCE students back to face-to-face teaching.
- by Anna Prytz
Analysis
Please Explain podcast
Students are getting worse at maths but will a curriculum change fix the problem?
Today on Please Explain, Nathanael Cooper is joined by education editor Jordan Baker to find out more about the changes to the national maths curriculum.
- by Nathanael Cooper
‘Confused and confusing’: Maths experts say curriculum is faddish and shallow
Dozens of mathematicians and maths teachers have written to the national curriculum authority, concerned that changes to the maths curriculum will mean “students end up knowing less”.
- by Jordan Baker and Sarah McPhee
Regional and senior students return to class but first VCE exam delayed
All regional students will return to their classrooms on Friday. But in Melbourne, students not in years 11 and 12 must persist with remote learning.
- by Madeleine Heffernan and Adam Carey
Schools brace for more remote learning, call for staff vaccinations
The Grattan Institute says reopening schools should be a key priority for the Victorian government, as schools prepare for remote learning to continue into a second week.
- by Madeleine Heffernan and Adam Carey
NSW government’s school consent package receives lukewarm reception
Educational experts and activist Chanel Contos have welcomed measures announced by the NSW Education Minister on sexual consent, but say they do not go far enough.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos