Newsroom, 26 Apr 2019. Denmark is one of the happiest countries in the world. Teaching empathy has been mandated since 1993. Empathy helps build relationships and prevent bullying. It promotes the growth of leaders, entrepreneurs and managers. Read the article here
Prof Angel Urbina-Garcia,The Conversation, 2 Sept 2019. Children are experiencing more mental health problems and behavioural disorders (such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism). Education systems could tackle this – if they set out to do so. By promoting learning over league tables, Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland) appear in the top ten happiest countries. Read the article here
Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post, 30 Aug 2019. The Finnish education system is one of the best in the world. It is a whole-child-centred, research-and-evidence based school system. Education is not managed like a business with measurement-based accountability and competition, and the system is not judged by literacy and numeracy test scores alone. Read the article here
Adam Voigt, The Age, 28 Aug 2019. NAPLAN is dead. It has been for years. Publishing the data creates an environment of competiton and fear across our education sector, instead of sharing. Read the article here
David Hornsby, 2017. This paper is available for download. It may be copied (without changes) and distributed freely. The proposed test is not compatible with the intentions of the Australian Curriculum: English, but we might ask why a test on one day of the year would be worthwhile. Assessment is a continuous process, not an event. Aust Curric & Yr 1 phonics test
ABC News, 26 Aug 2019. Aaustralia’s young high achievers are turning their backs on teaching. It’s not just a cultural problem – governments can and should do more to make teaching attractive. Read the article here
EduResearch Matters, Dr Paul Gardner, 15 July 2019. While the systematic teaching of phonics has an important place in a teacher’s repertoire of strategies, it does not appear to make any sense to make it the exclusive method of teaching reading. To give it a privileged status as a test does exactly that. In England, phonics screening check scores have improved by students’ reading abilites have not. Read the article…
EduResearch Matters, 26 August 2019. In Australia, there is a staggering level of inequality between outcomes for students from high socioeconomic background and those from low socioeconomic background. Read the article here
Carolyn Tate, 15 Aug 2019. Children who read about lives different from their own develop more empathy for other individuals, and children will be inclined to read more if they can see themselves and their own lives reflected in stories. Read the article here
Pasi Sahlberg, ABC News, 14 Aug 2019. Finnish educator and scholar, Prof Pasi Sahlberg, has advised education policymakers around the world. He knows we need to fix current inequalities in schools before educational excellence can truly be achieved. Read the article here
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