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Justin Mullaly, president of the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union

The worst paid teachers in Australia are spoiling for a fight to get a better deal

The teachers’ union has raised the spectre of strike action for the first time in a decade in pursuit of a pay demand of up to 14 per cent for 52,000 Victorian government school educators.

  • Noel Towell

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Australia has a maths problem. One in three of our school students fail to achieve proficiency in maths.

WA students with ‘maths dyslexia’ fall through the cracks as crisis worsens

The low percentage of WA students excelling in maths means those with the learning disorder dyscalculia are falling through the cracks.

  • Holly Thompson
St Bernard’s

How these schools are teaching their way out of a national maths crisis

Australia has been too slow to scrap “faddish, unproven” maths teaching methods, a new report says. These schools have found the secret to success.

  • Lucy Carroll
Teacher Lidia Cummins with grade 1 students at Bentleigh West Primary, where maths is taught in an explicit, systematic way. The school’s NAPLAN results are among the best in the state.

‘Unproven’ teaching methods have failed primary students and teachers

Students’ maths abilities have been compromised over decades, with “faddish, unproven” teaching methods failing to get results. But these schools have found the secret to success.

  • Bridie Smith
Mulubirhan Worku with her three girls Sifan, 7, Zeynab, 9, and Hayat, 5, at Debney Meadows Primary School, Flemington.

‘A school for the community’: Here, parents learn alongside their kids

Only a few years ago, parents didn’t feel comfortable walking into this inner-north school. Now some stay for the whole day.

  • Nicole Precel
School holidays begin this week. Wait, what?!

Parents should heed social media warnings given to their kids

Eastern suburbs private school Cranbrook had to write to parents last week to shut down rumours spread on WhatsApp.

  • The Herald's View
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Stephanie Nunn with her son, Sebby

‘They can’t even tie their shoelaces’: How young is too young for a school laptop?

Frustrated parents are pushing back against school technology policies that can ask students as young as six to bring devices to class each day.

  • Lucy Carroll
Isla Sieben (right) and Akur Jok, riders in Cranbourne West Primary School’s successful “human powered vehicle” team.

Fast times at Cranbourne West: Primary school pupils drive high-powered school project

For the children of Cranbourne West Primary School, human-powered vehicle racing is opening up new opportunities.

  • Noel Towell
Former School Infrastructure NSW CEO Anthony Manning.

ICAC to probe former School Infrastructure NSW boss

The state’s powerful anti-corruption body is investigating allegations bureaucrats from School Infrastructure awarded lucrative contracts to friends and business associates.

  • Lucy Carroll
Abbotsford Primary School principal Keith McNeil with students (front) Juliette, Lior and Chiara, and (rear) Lloyd, Daria and Madeleine.

The change coming to state schools that will save parents money

Expensive branded uniform requirements will be ditched for some items – like pants and socks – in a move designed to ease costs for families.

  • Alex Crowe

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