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We need Gonski now more than ever

By Pasi Sahlberg and Adrian Piccoli If you were a disadvantaged child today in an Australian school, chances are high that a majority of the other children in your school would also be disadvantaged. Your school would most likely need more resources to have experienced special education experts; it probably would not have qualified mathematics and science teachers, and nobody to teach music. In this respect, Australia is an outlier…

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The Australian school system has a serious design flaw

I was trembling. Not because I was about to do something risky or scary – quite the opposite. This was a situation I had been in many times before, but I was nervous about what was going to happen next. I was on the Concert Hall stage at the Sydney Opera House looking at an audience of about 2,000 people. Not to perform music, thankfully. I’d been invited to speak about why Australia should abolish its private schools. Typical…

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Focus on children’s relationships over lockdown gaps

Schools are resuming classes amid parents' fears their children may have a COVID 'lockdown gap' in their education following the stresses of remote learning. The worry is children could not have possibly learnt as much at home, with parents as stand-in teachers, as they would have in usual school surroundings. But to a renowned international education expert, these fears betray a uniquely Australian attitude and could even harm…

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Australian politicians trust scientists on Covid. Why don’t they listen to teachers on school reform?

If remote learning has shown parents anything, it is a renewed appreciation for the job that teachers do. Now as teachers return to school in the coming weeks, at least in New South Wales, it’s a chance to ask some consequential questions: Are the teacher policies what they should be to improve education in these uncertain times? Is teaching such an attractive career choice that there will be enough qualified teachers in all…

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Let’s give kids more responsibilities: An interview with “The Teacher’s Newspaper”

The following interview with Alyona Yurchenko of "The Teacher's Newspaper" was done in July 2021 about education in Finland. This is the original (rough cut) interview in English. Published Russian version is here: "Мы должны дать детям больше ответственности". Alyona: Finland and neighboring Nordic countries are quite similar in many ways, however, according to the results of global rankings,…

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Let our dreams come true: A tribute to Iceland

What strikes me most about Iceland is not the coexistence of the hot volcanoes and the cold sea. While I continue to be thrilled about the sagas and the magic of the history, there is something else that makes Iceland a special place. I am always impressed when I think about how people in Iceland view education as a fundamental element of survival and community, and a condition of good life. What anyone arriving to Iceland needs…

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Children these days have several digital devices, and few can spend a day without them

 By Pasi Sahlberg and Amy Graham More than nine out of ten parents think digital media and technologies are a negative distraction in their lives. And 83% think their children are also negatively distracted by digital devices.  These are some of the findings from our Growing Up Digital Australia study. In 2020 we surveyed nearly 2,500 parents, grandparents and caregivers across Australia. This data set yielded data about over…

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Let the Children Play

If you have children or grandchildren, I have a question for you: Do children today spend less time playing compared to when you were their age? This can be a hard question to answer accurately. According to my experience most people have a very clear response: Children today play less than they parents did in their childhood. Often much less. Recently we asked nearly 2,000 Australian parents about their perceptions of children’s…

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The Best and The Brightest Myth: What if Finland’s great teachers taught in your schools?

This is an excerpt from Finnish Lessons 3.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? (2021), pp. 167-172. --------- I have been privileged to meet and host scores of foreign education delegations to Finland in recent years in their quest to build higher-performing school systems in their own countries. What most of these visitors take away is that Finland has a highly standardized teacher education system…

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In Finland education is a basic civil right

By Pasi Sahlberg and William Doyle Two decades ago, Finland made big news in international education circles. Against all odds it became a top-performer in OECD’s first PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) study that compared 15-year-olds’ knowledge and skills in reading, mathematical and scientific literacies. Since about 2010 education experts and pundits in the United States have debated whether there is…

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