Gabbie Stroud, The Guardian, 27 Jun 2022. Australia is facing mass teacher unrest and an exodus from the profession. Teachers on the cusp of leaving explain why.
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Pasi Sahlberg, The Guardian, 11 Oct 2021. When teachers are trusted, and a culture of professional collaboration exists, we see an improvement in educational performance. (Education systems that treat teachers as trusted professionals adjusted better to pandemic disruption.)
Sydney Morning Herald, 5 Jan 2021. Two decades ago, Australia was one of the leading education nations in the world. That was before market-based models of school choice, test-based accountability (eg. pre-NAPLAN) and gradual privatisation of public education. The OECD used to hold Australia as one of the best in class in education. But not any longer. And UNICEF has ranked Australia’s education among the most unequal in rich countries.
Amy Gibbons, www.tes.com, 30 Apr 2020. An infectious diseases expert from the University of Oxford has warned that we have “every reason to believe that children can infect others.” There should be vastly increased testing and contact tracing if children are to return to schools.
ABC News, 9 March 2020. Pasi Sahlberg. We have some of the best schools in the world, but they are not for all of our children. Our system is one of the most unequal and socially segregated among the rich countries of the world. The crisis in education is the system’s inability to learn; teachers and kids are not the problem.
EduResearch Matters, 2 March 2020. Teachers in Australia are struggling with workload and feeling underappreciated, and almost six in ten say they intend to leave the profession.
The Conversation, 13 Feb 2020. We can’t look to individual schools and teachers to fix this. The whole of the education system needs reform to meet the needs of this large group of children.
The Guardian, 8 Nov 2019. The teachers’ union says this is another slush fund for private schools, on top of the $1.2 billion Choice and Affordability fund for Catholic and independent schools (which also included money for drought-affected areas). But more than 80% of students in drought-effected areas attend public schools.
EducationHQ News, Dr Pam Ryan, 8 Nov 2019. On the surface, teaching is a caring profession, one which people enter with the altruistic desire to bring out the best in others. However, whispers in staffrooms tell a different story. (This article available to EducationHQ subscribers only.)
EducationHQ, 1 Oct 2019. Educators have the knowledge and expertise to help build a ‘new narrative’ for Australian education. However, teachers may not be able to publicly discuss education policy and risk being fired if they criticise it. Ref: Prof Alan Reid, Changing Australian Education: How policy is taking us backwards and what can be done about it.
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