Graduation season is here and it’s time for even the youngest graduates to walk across the stage, receive their diplomas, and toss those…
Australia’s most forward-thinking schools are already stepping forward—have you secured your place? As nominations continue for this year’s 5-Star Best Schools, The Educator is once again…
By Nupur Bagoria Many teachers don’t have a detailed financial plan for retirement—and that’s completely understandable. Day-to-day classroom demands often leave little room…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
AI hype keeps getting bigger and the offerings more complex. It’s being pitched to schools from every direction, but what really matters when…
Ayumi Kubo / Unsplash Celeste Rodriguez Louro, The University of Western Australia I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as…
Frustrated with reading countless AI-generated take-home essays and long ago disillusioned with scantrons, I plunged into oral exams this finals season. The classes were lower-division history courses: one comprised mostly…
Created by New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, DailySpark is an innovative 30-day digital learning experience designed to help…
When there’s a bug going around the school, teachers are usually the first to know—and the first to catch it. But not only…
Despite being a fixture of school education for 17 years, NAPLAN’s purpose remains under the microscope, with many experts questioning whether it is…
In May 2023, Federal Health Minister Mark Butler flagged vaping as the number one behavioural issue in high schools. At that time, studies…
Across Australia, schools are stepping up and introducing creative programs, rethinking learning spaces and finding smarter solutions to meet the evolving needs of…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed support for a proposal to create a national center that would promote Russian as a second language…
Dear We Are Teachers,I’m reaching out because I’m at my wit’s end trying to engage the parents of my 7th graders who just…
Welcome to the August 2025 Edtech Show & Tell, in which our editors share some of the new edtech products that have caught…
In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed from a distant technological concept to an everyday tool accessible to our…
Victoria has long prided itself on being “The Education State” – a boast that is printed on everything from car numberplates to official…
If you teach music, you know how the cost of materials can easily add up. From cello strings to oboe reeds, sheet music…
In March this year, more than 1.3 students sat a record 4.5 million online tests in 9,477 campuses and schools across Australia. Two…