These five things are collected from my numerous conversations and debates during the past few months about the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for schools, teachers, students and parents.
We all know healthy children learn better. Healthy school lunch served free to every Australian child would be a simple way to improve education and child wellbeing.
When people overseas ask me about Australian schools, I tell them that we have some of the best schools in the world — but they are not for all of our children.
A "back to basics" response to the latest PISA results is wrong and ignores the other data Australia has spent more than 10 years obsessing about – NAPLAN.
Professor Pasi Sahlberg has a warning for policymakers hurriedly touting the need to ‘go back to basics’ in a bid to reverse Australia’s plummeting PISA results.