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Early NAPLAN results show promise, but we don’t know the full impact of COVID school closures yet
The early NAPLAN results for 2021 suggest the average impact of COVID school closures on literacy and numeracy in 2020 has been relatively small.
25.08.2021 News

We owe it to our kids to get the schools open
Intermittent school closures to manage Covid outbreaks are ­likely for the rest of the year, and possibly well into 2022, depending on when children…
24.08.2021 News

We need to attract more high achievers to teaching
Australia should aim to double over the next 10 years the proportion of high achievers who choose teaching as a career. Here’s three steps…
07.08.2021 News

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We must improve remote learning to reduce school closure harm

If we fail to act, children will emerge from the pandemic with vastly different remote schooling experiences – and the learning gap will have widened.

25.07.2021 News

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