This report outlines the results of the Staff in Australia's Schools survey, which gathered information from over 13,000 secondary and primary school teachers and leaders across the country. It aimed to address key gaps in the data available to characterise the teaching profession to support workforce planning. The project also involved extensive consultations with key...

Family-school partnerships are collaborative relationships and activities involving school staff, parents and other family members of students at a school. Effective partnerships are based on mutual trust and respect, and shared responsibility for the education of the children and young people at the school.

The South Australian Teaching for Effective Learning Framework provides a guide for an ongoing discussion about Learning for teaching - Teaching for learning and is being shared with Learning to Learn Phase IV sites and districts across the state. Through their participation in Learning to Learn (Phases I, II and III), preschools, primary, secondary and...

This paper was presented as a talk to the Australian Education Union Federal Executive meeting in Melbourne in September 2007 by Bob Harris from Education International and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD. It contains comparisons to countries with standardized curriculum and national testing policies.

An overly negative view of literacy and reluctance to take account of history has limited research and led indirectly to the advancement of some unproductive ideas about literacy, according to this review of research on literacy education by the Australian Council for Educational Research. The review argues that a false dichotomy has developed in literacy...