Month: June 2020
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How is literacy taught in schools?
by Eileen Honan When education commentators turn their attention to the teaching of reading in Australian schools, they often use metaphors of war. They talk about the reading wars as if our classrooms are sites of intense battle. This can lead to parents becoming not only confused, but deeply worried about the teaching of reading,…
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Leadership – It’s black & white
I woke up this morning to footage of protests, turned riots in America and solidarity protests across Europe. These were the continuation of activities over the weekend following the death of a man, George Floyd, at the hands of a former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, with a reported history of misusing the agency his…