Australia is a first-world country and yet our students are falling behind other nations. Teaching was once held up as the noblest of professions but today the vast majority of teachers believe the public doesn’t respect them. Around the country there are public schools achieving phenomenal results and yet in the very same jurisdictions there are public schools barely staying afloat. In our new groundbreaking series Best in Class we will examine these profound problems and find the critical solutions we need. Because nothing less than the future of our children depends on it.
A “strict” headmistress who has transformed her Western Sydney state school into one of the most well-mannered in Australia has revealed why she believes any school can adopt her successful measures.
Any parent or teacher will tell you that mobile phones and learning don’t go well together. But what if they also don’t go well apart?
Just four years into the career she’d dreamt about, Olivia is on the brink of abandoning teaching altogether. Here she reveals the brutal reality of life in the classroom.
Australia is facing an education crisis with teachers leaving the school system in droves. Experienced educators have revealed in open letters what finally forced them to quit the career they had once dreamed of. Read what they said here.
Too many Aussie kids are graduating without the gift of learning a second language, experts say, but one Sydney school is punching above its weight in producing bright bilingual students.
As our teachers grapple to retain control of some of the world’s most disruptive classrooms, experts say issues of discipline are becoming increasingly medicalised.
A unique school for gifted children in Adelaide’s southern suburbs is punching well above its weight, finishing second in the latest NAPLAN tests. See how your school fared.
A veteran Queensland principal says he understands why teachers are leaving the profession, despite it being rewarding, saying the stress has him considering an early retirement as well.
The performance of SA schools in national literacy and numeracy testing has been revealed. See the rankings for 2022 and search the map to find the best performing schools near you.
They are crucial milestones that could alter Australia’s future: the first 1000 days of a child’s life and a gap of 30 million words by the time children turn three. This is why.
A country kid turned university student and mentor aims to head bush to inspire the next generation of Indigenous kids to follow the same path.
As our teachers grapple to retain control of some of the world’s most disruptive classrooms, experts say issues of discipline are becoming increasingly medicalised.
Public schools have ranked alongside inner-city private colleges to be named the state’s top academic performers in new NAPLAN results released today. SEE WHERE YOUR SCHOOL RANKED
Work has begun on a national universal early childhood education system in a social reform hailed as big as Medicare and compulsory superannuation.
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