Education Review Issue 2 | March 2018 | Page 3

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NEWS
2 Scholarships for bullied kids?
3 NSW teacher world’s best?
4 80% of youth in education
5 Teens win science awards
6 New sexual misconduct laws
7 Anti-obesity program fails
8 NAPLAN link to HSC scrapped
9 SMARTSchool opens
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INDUSTRY & REFORM
10 Finnish touch
What Finland’s school system
can teach us
12 The end of NAPLAN?
Why experts want it axed
SUBEDITOR
13 Room for improvement
Robert Santos
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Australian education falling
behind OECD peers
SALES ENQUIRIES
14 Improving teacher quality
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Government review aims to
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COVER IMAGE
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18 Trading up
Dr Paul Rijken
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Government woos trade
workers into teaching
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22 Low grades linked to suicide
The worse the grades, the
higher the risk, study finds
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IN THE CLASSROOM
16 Under attack
Principals in increasing peril
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SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
24 A happy accident
Principal who fell into teaching
makes education his mission
27 Ulterior motives
Why parents choose the
schools they do
WORKFORCE
28 Great expectations
The crushing demands placed
on Singapore’s teachers
TECHNOLOGY
30 Game theory
Are digital games a valuable
form of play?
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32 Brave new world
Why digitising tests will boost
learning
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