School boys’ writing standards have slipped again: Year Nine boys now write on average at a Year Seven level. It’s looking like an Australian education crisis, though not a new one. It is worth noting, girls’ writing has been slipping ...

Monday to Friday, behind a desk, in the one place. This is the standard – and much-bemoaned – model for work life. It’s also the model for much of pre-tertiary education, from kindergarten to Year 12. Is this monotonous, precisely ...

Do students who live near factory pollution have more trouble learning than those in cleaner neighbourhoods? Will they be less likely to attend class if they have to pass through a rough area on their way there? These are some of ...

Policies that equate raising the school leaving age with improved outcomes are deluded, writes Stuart Middleton. A former director general of the NSW Department of education, Ken Boston arrived back in Australia after 10 years in England and declared he ...