Poor pay,conditions and the pandemic are tipped to cause a shortage of skilled early learning workers within 18 months.
Meet the WA primary school principal who started ‘Learning Difference Day’,where children with conditions including ADHD and FASD come to school proud of their ‘superpower’.
A maths war is erupting as traditionalists and progressives argue about what students should know,and the best way to teach them.
Some parents want nothing more than to engage with someone – anyone – who is not screaming at them for a juice box. Others are not pleased to be there.
A database has revealed persistent educational gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged Melburnians.
Teaching literacy is a new frontier in the culture wars,with students who struggle with this most vital life skill the primary casualties.
In this episode of Good Weekend Talks,literacy expert Professor Anne Castles joins Sydney Morning Herald education editor Jordan Baker for a conversation about “the reading wars” in early childhood learning.
A S.M.A.R.T. guide to give your children a good financial grounding for a post-COVID world.
Childcare fees will grow by more than 4 per cent a year over the next four years,with savings from the new subsidy expected to disappear within a year.
Not-for-profit kindergartens face being left hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket if they join the Andrews government’s free kindergarten scheme.
When NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell wrote about the reading wars in the Herald on Monday,critics took aim at her combative terminology.