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Save Our Schools Australia: More Bad News for Independent Public Schools
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. More Bad News for Independent Public Schools. Monday July 13, 2015. A new report suggests that the faith placed in independent public schools to improve student results is misplaced. The report, published last month by the UK National Foundation for Education Research. Found that academy schools (which are an English version of independent public schools) perform no better than traditional public schools. This report examined the ...
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Save Our Schools Australia: Principal Leadership Makes Teacher Training Effective
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. Principal Leadership Makes Teacher Training Effective. Monday June 1, 2015. Surveys of beginning teachers by the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association. Having made those recommendations, I realised that this was very much a shared responsibility, and that schools also had a responsibility to enhance these programs and to do their best in preparing the next generation of teachers. So following are some recommendations fo...
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Save Our Schools Australia: Victorian Education Corruption Scandal: Our Children Deserve Much Better
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. Victorian Education Corruption Scandal: Our Children Deserve Much Better. Sunday June 21, 2015. Nino Napoli, disgraced Victorian Education Department bureaucrat, may be the public face of the most disgraceful and shameful episode in living memory in Victorian state education, but he is far from being the whole story. The IBAC Inquiry has uncovered corruption on a breathtaking scale. Disturbingly it involves erstwhile highly re...
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Save Our Schools Australia: Low SES Students Do Better Than High SES Students at University
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. Low SES Students Do Better Than High SES Students at University. Wednesday June 3, 2015. A report by the Victoria Institute for Strategic Economic Studies. Shows that first year students from low socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds at Victoria University achieve better results than high SES students. It also found that students from lower performing schools seem to perform better than their peers from elite schools. The report...
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Save Our Schools Australia: A Teacher's Comment on NAPLAN
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. A Teachers Comment on NAPLAN. Thursday May 21, 2015. Earlier this week the ABC’s Life Matters program. Ran a segment on parents taking their children out of the NAPLAN tests. It generated considerable discussion. A listener who is a teacher sent SOS this response to the program. We would say as adults that would be unreasonable. Performance evaluation at work relies on continuous practice. Commenting is closed for this article.
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Save Our Schools Australia: Federal Education Dept Befuddled by Pyne’s Funding Increase Claims
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. Federal Education Dept Befuddled by Pyne’s Funding Increase Claims. Tuesday June 16, 2015. The recent Senate Estimates hearings revealed that the Federal Department of Education and Training could not justify Christopher Pyne’s often repeated claim that school funding has increased by 40 per cent in the last 10 years. These figures also include book entry items for public schools, such as the user cost of capital and depreciation,...
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Save Our Schools Australia: P-TECH Schools are Unproven and Threaten Public Education
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. P-TECH Schools are Unproven and Threaten Public Education. Tuesday May 26, 2015. This article is summary of a Policy Brief published by SOS on P-TECH schools. The Brief can be downloaded below. Third, the model also involves IBM having a key leadership role in public schools. An IBM Vice-President has said that it will take responsibility for the Ballarat school and have a support role in the Geelong school. In effect, the...Fourt...
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Save Our Schools Australia: Federal Budget Perspective: A Reduced Future
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. Federal Budget Perspective: A Reduced Future. Sunday June 14, 2015. The small business sector has done well out of the Federal Budget, and there has been a positive response from the local business community. The Abbott government will only fund one third of the promised Gonski funding over the next two years, and plans to abandon Gonski entirely after 2017. Schools that were counting on increased finances to extend literacy a...
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Save Our Schools Australia: Study Finds that School SES has a Strong Impact on Student Achievement
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Fighting for Equity in Education. The struggle is long but hope is longer. Study Finds that School SES has a Strong Impact on Student Achievement. Wednesday July 1, 2015. A new study published in the latest issue of the British Educational Research Journal. The results suggest that if low SES schools can manage to create a positive school climate through managing discipline, student behaviour and stimulating student morale, they can significantly reduce school composition effects on student achievement&#...
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