For many children in the United States, arts education, if offered at all, is uninspired and infrequent. So what do arts educators and others think are the key attributes of 'quality' in arts learning in K-12?

This report examines the idea of culture as it has permeated policy-making, public debate, practices in schools and academic writing in the UK. This review focuses on debates that have occurred in and around English education since 1944. It tracks a sequence of intense and continuing arguments about the proper meanings of ‘culture’ and ‘creativity’...

The literacy debate rarely addresses the critical social and historical factors that also account for why literacy levels among remote Indigenous youth are lower than their mainstream counterparts. The focus on schooling obscures the less obvious fact that we must also be cognisant of the broader sociocultural factors associated with literacy acquisition, maintenance and transmission...

This survey asks participants about their qualifications, their role ( what they do); and professional development activities. It is part of the The Australian School Libraries Research Project. The purpose of this study is two-fold: to gain a snapshot of the state of school libraries in Australia and to examine the roles and qualifications of...

Australia’s school children are in danger of not getting what they need to support development of critical skills in information and reading literacy according to this survey. The survey aims to build an accurate snapshot of all school libraries in Australia by gathering useable and ongoing data about collections, resource levels, budgets and personnel. This...