Learning First News Today

Two researchers independently studied Australian students’ results. These papers both reached the same conclusions: scores on the vast majority of standardised assessments are not in decline.

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For a Government that hates gangs you would think that they would be more circumspect with policies that may enrich gangs and increase illicit drug use.  But this is exactly what the current Government is planning.

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National's 100 days of action is to address the rhetoric of economic difficulties but the announced policies will do nothing to help the pressure that ordinary people are feeling.

Two education researchers argue it is important we don’t let ‘curriculum wars’ distract us from the other issues hurting Australian schools and education.

The terrorist attack in Israel on October 7 has generated waves of reaction across the globe.

Money pumped into school education for two decades has only led to students continuing to slide down global rankings. Will the revised curriculum make a difference?

The nation’s school science curriculum sets students up for failure against top-performing countries. And Victoria’s is even worse.