Save Our Schools - Educational Research Briefs
- SOS School Funding Brief March 2024 Government Funding Increases Favour Private Schools
- SOS Education Policy Comment March 2024 Fully Funding Public Schools is Critical for the Albanese Government's Broad Education Agenda
- SOS Education Research Brief February 2024 Groundbreaking Study Confirms Positive Impacts of Increased School Funding
- SOS Education Policy Comment February 2024 Labor's Complete Capitulation to Elite Private Schools
- SOS Education Research Paper February 2024 Education Ministers Must Renounce Their Billion Dollar Swindle of Public Schools
- SOS Education Research Paper February 2024 Over One Billion of Taxpayer Funding Squandered on Over-Funding the Richest Families and Schools
- SOS Education Policy Comment February 2024 WA School Funding Agreement Defrauds Public Schools
- SOS Education Policy Comment January 2024 Nearly 4 in 5 Australian Students Didn't Fully Try in PISA 2022
- SOS Education Policy Comment January 2024 Productivity Commission Should Recommend Ending Tax Deductibility For All Donations To Private Schools
Items of Interest, Research and Links
Free Financial Life Skills Resource for Students from The Wealth Academy
Financial wellbeing has never been more important for many Australian families.
Our developing collaboration with The Wealth Academy (TWA) will see Australian public schools receiving many free financial life skill resources during 2021. TWA's e-zine Teenfinca (teenage financial capability) is available for download here. The e-zine prompts middle and secondary students to start thinking about their financial future and encourages parents to have financial life skill conversations with their children. Click here for more information
The Big Five Executive Functions - Andrew Fuller
There are five skills that reliably predict success for children & teens. These skills put us in the ‘driver’s seat’ of life rather than being a passenger directed by others & are collectively known as ‘executive functions’.-says Andrew Fuller - Read the full article here
ATO Paying it forward teaching resource, K-6 - The Paying It Forward resource has been co-designed with primary school teachers, is aligned with the Australian and state curriculums, and includes 120 fun and engaging standalone activities for K-6 students in digital and printable formats.
Coronavirus Covid -19 Information and Links for Parents
Our ACSSO Director Sarah Jefferson shares 5 back to school tips: Please follow this link
ACER Review: Communicating Student Learning Progress - A Review of Student Reporting
Our ACSSO Director Fiona McGaughey contributed to the recent ACARA Blog with a parents view on Naplan
Parent-School Engagement during Family Separation or Divorce Research - by University of Southern Queensland - click here for parent information
Public School by Choice! - by the ACSSO team. We visited a local public school and chatted with the parents of these gorgeous little kindy's, a group of friends who met when they were babies. They told us why they chose their local public school -click here
Why are we throwing money at people who CHOOSE not to use public education? Why Indeed!
National Links
Education Departments
Federal:
Department of Education
ACT: Department of Education and Training
NSW: NSW Department of Education
NT: Department of Employment, Education and Training
QLD: Department of Education and Training
SA:Department of Education and Childhood Development
TAS: Department of Education Tasmania
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