Primary school
The NAPLAN-topping school that says phonics helped get it there
Teaching reading using phonics, which is to be mandatory for state schools, has received strong praise from this primary school in Melbourne’s south-east.
- by Caroline Schelle
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Schools
Smaller is not necessarily better when it comes to class sizes
Most Brisbane classrooms aren’t ‘overcrowded’ because they don’t break targets, but what is the perfect class size?
- by Felicity Caldwell
Is your child’s school overcrowded? Search our list of Brisbane class sizes
Some Brisbane schools are failing to keep class sizes below official targets. But one school is showing how going the extra mile can create some of the city’s happiest students.
- by Felicity Caldwell
Keith has written five books and a PhD thesis. He’s never read a single one
The professor, who kept his reading difficulties a secret for years, supports Victoria’s move to structured phonics in classrooms.
- by Bridie Smith
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Education
The Sydney private schools with the highest-earning parents
The new figures help rank schools based on parents’ income and determine how much government funding flows to each school.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
Numeracy in schools doesn’t add up. Here’s how experts would solve the problem
All children would be tested for numeracy knowledge in the first two years of school under a plan to tackle underachievement in maths.
- by Robyn Grace
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Education
Where is the long-term plan for education in Perth’s inner city? Apparently, nowhere
There is a missing piece in the state’s education outlook – a long-term, inner-city plan, claims the federal MP for Perth.
- by Holly Thompson
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Education
Parents left in the dark after principal and deputies leave north shore school
Families say they are “bewildered” by the sudden change in the public school’s leadership. The NSW Education Department says there is an internal investigation under way.
- by Lucy Carroll
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Religious freedom
A school parent discovered Charlotte was gay on Facebook. Days later, she was sacked
A Sydney Christian school fired their music teacher because of her sexuality in the weeks since the government threatened to shelve new laws that would protect LGBTQ staff from discrimination.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Rapper at centre of ‘white devil’ school song controversy addresses furore
A song from Indigenous rapper Birdz was banned from a Sydney primary school this week. But he says it’s been taught inside classrooms for years.
- by Meg Watson
A lock of hair and $180,000 in fines after eight-year-old drowns at school camp
The death of Cooper Onyett has had a profound impact on his family and the Warrnambool school community, a court heard, as the Education Department was fined over safety breaches.
- by David Estcourt
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