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Teacher education reform: Where will all the experts come from?
The problems with education in Australia are not new. When the first major Commonwealth government report on school quality (the ‘Karmel report) was published in
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Five from Five provides free information and resources on evidence-based reading instruction, under the guidance of The Academy for the Science of Instruction.
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Don’t discard comprehension strategies
As greater consensus has been reached about how to teach children to decode and read words fluently, the focus of discussion among practitioners and researchers
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Still too many ‘instructional casualties’: A response to the Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on the National School Reform Agreement
In September, the Productivity Commission released an Interim Report from its Inquiry into the National School Reform Agreement (NSRA). The NSRA is “a joint agreement
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A defence of decodable books: Response to a recent systematic review
Well before the sparkling new Australian Curriculum 9.0 endorsed replacing predictable texts with decodable texts in early years classrooms, demand had begun to grow for
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Ten years after the first version, the Australian Curriculum gets it right on reading
When the draft of the revised Australian Curriculum was released for consultation last year, the response was swift and emphatic from hundreds of reading scientists
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The ‘Next Steps’ for improving initial teacher education
The Next Steps report prepared by the Quality Initial Teacher Education review panel was finally released last week after a three month wait. It hits
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Groundhog day for reading instruction
There are few things more disheartening in my work life than having to spend precious time unpicking and rebutting the destructive work of high status
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What the ‘Dubbo study’ tells us about background knowledge and reading comprehension
The contribution of background or content knowledge to reading comprehension is becoming better understood (see for example, here, here, here, and here) and there are
