The effect of NZ’s abysmal literacy and numeracy rates can be seen in employment, health and justice outcomes. Education policy must address improving in these basic skills.
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In this area, much of the work of being educated is only indirectly tied to the schooling experience.
There are areas of biology that may be considered optional at younger year levels, such as botany, entomology and marine ecosystems. Evolution is not one of these.
As the Voice referendum approaches, it is becoming more important to facilitate constructive and sensitive discussions. New research shows how to approach this.
The Supreme Court rejected President Joe Biden’s student loan program that aimed at delivering up to $20,000 of relief per borrower.
A review of government services has found that autistic people are being failed in health, education, employment, poverty and housing.
The US is home to more international migrants than any other country. But even though immigration is an actively debated topic, immigrants are poorly understood.
In this course, a gun range becomes a classroom for students to explore their previously held beliefs about firearms.
Kenya’s budgetary allocation misses opportunities to improve basic education and address unemployment.
The school’s approval may be the strongest challenge yet to limits on public money in religious schools.
A history scholar sees leeway and loopholes in a wave of new state laws that seek to control what teachers can say about racism in America’s past.
In low-income countries, tobacco use is often associated with lower income and less education. These users can’t afford to pay for counselling and medication.
About 10 million US children are chronically absent from school.
A researcher who studies ways to help students become better readers and writers describes how to create a homework habit using a loop: cue, routine, reward.
Differences over what counts as indoctrination lie behind a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in Florida. PEN America’s CEO deems book removals ‘a deliberate attempt to suppress diverse voices’.
Digital poverty could put some students at a disadvantage.
Ancient rituals and games possess characteristics like repetition, structure and the use of symbolic objects that aid students in understanding the world.
Book bans in Ron DeSantis’s Florida have censored beloved Australian author Mem Fox – for an illustrated character’s bath. But blanket nudity bans teach children bodies are ‘inherently sexual’.
Although English to speakers of other languages (Esol) is treated like any other subject, it can offer far more to those learners.
Could a 10-minute meeting between teachers and principals reduce teacher turnover? A researcher explores the possibilities.
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
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Professor of Education Futures, The University of Melbourne
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DSTI/NRF Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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