Teachers should scrap weekly spelling lists that rely on rote learning and instead explicitly teach children spelling rules and conventions, a literacy researcher has urged.

Australian teachers are clocking up 52-hour working weeks on average, with some working up to 60 hours or even more, new national data has revealed. Released yesterday, AITSL’s Australian Teacher ...

The science of learning movement is ideologically driven and promotes a limited view of education, according to one teacher and researcher. Deakin University PhD candidate in Educational Philosophy ...

For some time Australia’s ‘education state’ has come under fire for its lack of commitment to drive evidence-based teaching practice at scale, but today Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll has ...

More than 700 educators from across the nation have convened for compelling webinar titled 'The Power of Direct Instruction', presented by founder and director of Good to Great Schools Australia (GGSA ...

For too long Australian education has been wrongly guided by anecdotes and intuition rather than the evidence about what works best in teacher practice, an expert has said. Dr Mark Carter, senior ...

A new annual report into the state of Indigenous education, what is working and what is not, and how we map a way to a better future, was released yesterday. Researched and prepared by the Aurora ...

Exclusion and bullying of students with disability is on the rise in Australia’s schools, with three in four impacted in 2024, a new survey has revealed. Commissioned by Children and Young People with ...

Popular books being thrust on young adult audiences via TikTok contain sexually explicit content deemed ‘extreme’, as well as concerning themes of domestic violence and pervasive masculinity tropes ...

Australian schools are at risk of falling for an increasingly popular method of maths teaching that lacks a credible evidence base and is rooted in ineffective discovery learning, a prominent school ...

More than a billion dollars will be invested in Northern Territory public schools over the next five years as part of a bid to lift education outcomes across the Territory. In a visit to the Top End ...

Initial teacher education should be removed from Australian universities and handed to a small group of national training institutions to counter the ‘ideological drift’ and litany of flawed ...