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Is the NAPLAN results delay about politics or precision?
The decision announced yesterday by ACARA to delay the release of preliminary NAPLAN data is perplexing. The justification …
Just like us: why Australian students need teachers from everywhere
Our dwindling teacher workforce makes headlines every week and new Education Minister Jason Clare calls it “a massive …
Why is there so much talk about teachers right now? Because we are afraid of them
The federal minister for education Jason Clare convened a roundtable to solve the teacher shortage on the eve of the new government’s Job Summit. Items on the agenda? It wasn’t hard to go past working conditions, status, and a growing, chronic teacher shortage as the impetus for history-making industrial action and considerable media coverage. Concerns about …
Why that one tweet went viral (and what we must do now to fix “teacher shortages”)
I almost never post on Twitter. Sometimes I like other people’s posts, but I’ve been a reluctant Twitter …
Broken but alive – COVID’s gender impacts in Australian universities now
“Two days to pivot online, it’s business as usual. We care about you, but your student evaluation scores are low. We’re in this together – where are your three research outputs?” …
The education minister’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea*
When will governments learn their lesson? Worksheets won’t fix workload crisis. The teachers of NSW are at breaking …
Is the cheery praise for mindfulness based on expert evidence?
Educators, desperate to offset the mental health impacts of COVID on students, are taking up mindfulness programs to …
Desperate and despondent: the truth about the way we treat immigrant teachers
In the battle to fix teacher shortages, much is made of recruiting teachers internationally. Three researchers reveal what …