Primary school
What teachers wish the parents of ‘problem children’ knew
Teachers and parents can see different versions of the same child. Here’s how to communicate effectively.
- Kimberly Gillan
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Instant offers and $20,000 sweeteners: The battle to keep these subjects in NSW schools
Research consistently points to broader cognitive benefits of learning a foreign language but last year just over 250 public school students were in Japanese beginners.
- Christopher Harris
Hundreds of schools to roll out year 1 maths checks next term
The checks will become mandatory in all public primary schools from next year, but some principals warn it isn’t the best use of resources.
- Nicole Precel and Jackson Graham
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- The Age Schools Summit
The reading wars are over. The learning wars are just beginning
Rebel educators have issued a call to arms against “one-size-fits-all nonsense” of explicit learning in the nation’s classrooms.
- Noel Towell
‘Genuinely frightened’: Jewish students targeted with slurs during interschool sport
Independent schools will meet later this month to discuss how to tackle antisemitism, including changes to the curriculum, amid a wave of alarming incidents among students.
- Nicole Precel
After exam chaos, parents to get NAPLAN ‘caveat’ but no mark adjustments
The head of the agency which oversees NAPLAN said there would be no mark adjustments.
- Christopher Harris
This 151-year-old Sydney private school is changing. Not everyone is happy
It will be back to the 1970s for Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College following its decision to offer some primary places in 2028.
- Christopher Harris
We gave kids endless tech. Their digital skills are at a 20-year low
A Sydney college is creating a specialist team to examine how students use AI and how AI literacy can best be taught.
- Emily Kowal
Qld students among weakest for computer literacy, despite growing AI use
Two-thirds of Queensland’s year 10 students do not meet national benchmarks for computer and technology literacy, despite most having “extensive” AI experience.
- Catherine Strohfeldt
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- Education
The inner Sydney school, the warring parents and a missing principal
Long-running tensions at Darlinghurst Public School have flared into civil war as highly invested parents demand answers from the Education Department.
- Alexandra Smith and Emily Kowal