Education – Geek in Sydney

I suppose it was ridiculously optimistic to expect a straight answer to the suggestion that there should be a Premier’s

How about we focus on teaching, not testing?

I wonder if the politicians who are so heartily endorsing the idea of testing kids in Year 1 have done

I was reading an article yesterday designed to reassure teachers about the new digital curriculum. The article said, in effect,

Whether you call it a ‘death spiral’ or a ‘decay curve’ STEM education in Australia is in deep trouble. I

In NSW, at least, many public schools have sub-committees of the Parent & Citizens that assist the school in various

So Australia came fifth in the latest PISA report on students abilities in financial literacy. While the underlying numbers in

Each year NSW schools run the Premier’s Reading Challenge and the Premier’s Sporting Challenge. In fact the 2017 Sporting Challenge was