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 ...

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 ...

‘Bizarre’ and ‘contradictory’ is how one school leader describes the criticism some academics have cast at AERO as an independent review of the organisation gets underway. Australian academics and ...

South Australia’s public education system is charting a bold new future in policy and practice, distinguishing it from other jurisdictions, since the State Labor Government came to power in March 2022 ...

Last week’s announcement by Education Minister Ben Carroll that Victorian primary schools will shift to a structured approach to teaching literacy using phonics in F-2 from next year has given ...

Very occasionally, we are lucky enough to have a truly rare talent working in our profession. Someone who has worked at the educational coalface and yet has the ability to get their head above the ...

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 ...

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.

NAPLAN results released today paint a picture of a stagnating education system, one hindered by inadequate professional standards for teachers, a national curriculum in desperate need of review, and ...

NSW schools spent $250 million delivering the state’s ‘COVID Intensive’ tutoring program in 2022, but with no measurable impact on students’ academic achievement or attendance to show for it, an ...

Australia is in the grip of a school attendance problem, with two in every five students now not attending regularly – and huge change is needed if we are to shift the dial across the country, experts ...

Mobile apps purporting to aid early reading skills in children are widely available these days, yet many fail to actually deliver any educational benefit, with positive app store reviews seemingly ...