NewsEducation
April 2018
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NAPLAN fosters bad writing: expert
April 09, 2018World-leading figure in writing assessment Dr Les Perelman is suggesting a new approach for the NAPLAN major writing task.
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Training course seeks to engage wider community
April 05, 2018As a part of the Fair Funding Now campaign, Federation has conducted six targeted campaign training days involving Federation Representatives, parents and principals in the key electorates of Banks, Gilmore, Page and Robertson.
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Your say: Let's not forget our shared history
April 04, 2018Bruce Pascoe's remarkable 2014 account of how Aboriginal Australia, upon first contact, had a sedentary agricultural economy, even in what is now referred to as the “dead centre” of the country, is a lesson in how non-Aboriginal Australians have forgotten our shared history.
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Public outrage at bus privatisation
April 03, 2018The privatisation of public services is an issue close to the hearts of public school teachers.
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Startling figures support funding campaign
April 03, 2018A national report that shows the declining performance of our most disadvantaged school students will cost the country at least $120 billion in coming decades, reinforced Federation’s campaign for fairer public school funding, President Maurie Mulheron said.
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Book Reviews
April 02, 2018This editions book reviews include: Ambulance Ambulance! Macbeth, Game of Mates: How Favours Bleed the Nation
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There’s nothing casual about teaching
April 01, 2018What mandatory training must a casual teacher undertake?
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Overwhelming response to workload survey
March 31, 2018Federation thanks the more than 18,200 members who responded to the survey “Understanding work in schools – the foundation for teaching and learning”, which closed on 26 March.
