As a result of long remote learning periods due to COVID, many families have found they prefer this method over traditional school.
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eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century
eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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As a result of long remote learning periods due to COVID, many families have found they prefer this method over traditional school.
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New South Wales and Victoria are investing $250 and $337 million respectively for disadvantaged students who fell behind in 2020 to have extra tutors.
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More than a quarter of school students in rural NSW do not have access to the internet at home, showing where kids live may determine educational outcomes.
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Eight years after a group of parents began campaigning for a new high school in the city, Inner Sydney High School finally opened its doors.
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Australian parents rely on a number of factors to choose a school for their child. These include school performance, location and social connections.
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One in five parents of children with ADHD have been urged by their school to seek a diagnosis or autism or anxiety to gain funding to support their child at school.
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Half of all state school teachers and employees in Victoria have experienced students in their school self-harming in the past year, a survey has found.
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The best-selling author of the Tomorrow series is also a teacher and school principal. His new book The Art of Growing Up has many truths on raising children, but also many contradictions.
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NSW students as young as eight will have to complete their homework via their internet in a new move which has some parents unsettled over online safety, screen time and the death of handwriting.
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Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has called for cyber bullying to be addressed in the national school curriculum, after the agency's latest data revealed that one in five young people have been targeted online.
In a written speech to be delivered at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, Ms Grant said online safely had become "one of the primary parenting challenges of our time", with many parents at a loss over how to help their children navigate the fast-changing online environment.
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60% of state schools already allowed girls to wear shorts or pants, but choice will be extended to all
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Australian schools have the dubious honour of having one of the highest reported rates of bullying in the world.
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From moving house not once but twice, to paying a surveyor $1000 to prove a point, to downright cheating, there is no end to the lengths some families will go.
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Early this month, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull penned a letter to school principals around the country, urging them to take action on bullying.
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Priests should be banned from being the employers of principals and teachers in Catholic schools, Australia’s royal commission into child sexual abuse has recommended in its final report as it excoriated “almost incomprehensible” failures to report abusers to the police.
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Proportion of students meeting national minimum standards flatlined or declined across most year groups since last year
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It is contradictory to claim that homophobia and transphobia have no place in schools, while providing exemptions that make it legally permissible in some cases to expel a student on the basis of their sexual orientation.
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At 12:30 pm on Thursday, 70,000 pens dropped on tables around NSW.
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Revolution School is a landmark documentary of life inside a high school classroom that shows how hard teaching is, says Professor Field Rickards.
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When teenagers switch on their phones and ipods, reading goes out the window and the evidence of this is in declining NAPLAN results between years 5 and 9.
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Australia finally has its first digital technology curriculum which is mandatory for all Australian children from Foundation, the name replacing kindergarten, to Year 8. The Technologies area now has two…
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Yet more evidence has emerged that public school students outperform their privately schooled counterparts once they get into university, this time following an extensive review of English and Scottish graduates by Cambridge University.
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Eight International Baccalaureate students at one Sydney private school scored the top ATAR of 99.95 compared to six HSC students at James Ruse Agricultural High School, raising questions about whether the alternative qualification gives students...
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Weight restrictions could soon be introduced in the state's schoolboy rugby competitions after the tragic death of 15-year-old Jake Kedzlie - grandson of rugby league legend Tommy Raudonikis - put the spotlight back on the risk of serious head...
Another place where we can apply research on the secular trend.
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The humble school canteen, staffed by volunteers and run by local parents and citizens groups, may soon become a thing of the past in the ACT.