Category Archive: Policy

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Why AERO should take a long hard look at itself.

"To look at AERO’s teaching model is to wonder whether the organisation is living in some other reality, a world in which there are no students who refuse to go to school, or leave school as soon as they can, or last the distance but leave with not much to show for...

AERO: Why and how its failures fail us all

In this article, Dean Ashenden, who is a senior honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne, questions the intellectual basis of the policies and practices which effect teachers across Australia. He examines the influence of Hattie’s work and offers this quote from...

Are we now gaslighting teacher expertise?

"Curriculum reform is underway in NSW, including the development and implementation of new syllabuses from kindergarten to year 12. Recent media coverage presents this reform as a ‘silver bullet’ for improving teaching and student outcomes. But there is...