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School attendance
Why appeasing Latham won’t make our students any more remarkable
Are our schools making the kids we think we should? The tussle between politics and education continues and Latham is just the blunt end of what is now the assumed modus operandi of school policy in Australia. Many readers of this blog no doubt will have noticed a fair amount of public educational discussion about NSW’s …
Taking children out of school to travel is not ‘unjustified’: bad policy from NSW Govt
I was dismayed by the announcement that time away from school for family holidays will now be marked …
Myth buster: improving school attendance does not improve student outcomes
Does improved student attendance lead to improved student achievement? Join prime ministers, premiers and education ministers from all sides of politics if you believe it does. They regularly tell us about the need to “improve” or “increase” attendance in order to improve achievement. We recently had unprecedented access to state government data on individual school …