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How do you help a neurodivergent kid make friends?

Some kids have never been invited to a party. Here’s why

Making and keeping friends can be challenging, but for neurodivergent children, these challenges become more complicated.

  • Felicity Caldwell

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The 2025 SMH School Summit.

The major NAPLAN change coming to schools

Teachers will get maths and reading results almost instantly under a plan by the national curriculum authority.

  • Nick Newling
The 2025 SMH Schools Summit.

SMH Schools Summit 2025 as it happened: Prue Car speaks after funding deal, selective schools in the spotlight

Sydney’s education thought leaders have gathered at ICC Sydney for The Sydney Morning Herald School Summit.

  • Nick Newling
Students at Queenwood play on the monkeybars after their parents struck a deal with the school not to buy students a smartphone.

The principal who made a pact with parents about what happens after school

Bans and restrictions on use and type of mobile phones are gaining traction.

  • Christopher Harris
Parent satisfaction rates at public schools have fallen to 10-year lows.

Parent satisfaction with public schools worse than during COVID

More than one in four parents with children in state secondary schools were dissatisfied with their school, the most recent Education Department data reveals.

  • Daniella White
WAToday homepage image - school aged population growth by suburb 2031-2041.

The number of school students forecast for every suburb in WA

Predictions show the state will grow by thousands of students between 2021 and 2041. Here’s where they are more likely to live, and the areas that will need the infrastructure to support the boom.

  • Holly Thompson
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Documents dated from April last year include 21 public education system targets developed by the education department.

Revealed: The secret performance targets for our schools

Performance goals that have been kept from the public for months reveal what parents really think about their children’s school.

  • Lucy Carroll
Year 1 students at Docklands Primary School and the new classroom phonics way of learning.

Phonic boom: The new, faster test for checking youngsters’ reading skills

Six-year-olds across Victoria will have reading skills put to the test this year with a new phonics check, which will help catch struggling students sooner.

  • Caroline Schelle
Independent schools have recorded the highest growth in enrolments over the past year.

WA families are increasingly choosing private schools, despite rising fees

Independent schools in WA recorded the highest growth in full-time enrolments nationally last year.

  • Holly Thompson
For Labor, the road to Parliament House runs through the Federal Labor Business Forum.

Seven in 10 high school students fail civics and citizenship tests

The latest results come amid a loss of faith in democracy and political institutions, rising antisemitic attacks and a breakdown in social cohesion.

  • Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris

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