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Saturday, 24 March 2018

Education's West Gate Bridge

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  Image source Imagine that some time later today, you start to feel creeping pain in your chest. You also feel a little sweaty a...
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Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Here we go again: Fact checking the anti-phonics movement in Education

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Image source This week, on the Australian Association for Education in Research (AARE) Blog , Professor Robyn Ewing of the University ...
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Sunday, 31 December 2017

New Year’s Resolutions and our attachment to bad habits

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Image source It’s that time of year again, when we all start kidding ourselves (and if we’re especially clever, each other) that we’re...
Friday, 8 December 2017

Can we talk about high-stakes failure?

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Much has been written and debated this week about the latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, that have be...
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Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Straw men and obfuscation: My response to Misty Adoniou on the Phonics Screening Check

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Image source This week, A/Prof Misty Adoniou of the University of Canberra published a piece entitled  How the national phonics test ...
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Monday, 23 October 2017

"Please take": The precious knowledge education has gifted away

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As one would expect in a career spanning 35 years, I have seen many changes regarding our understanding of children who struggle to make th...
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Saturday, 26 August 2017

Who’s in your reading instruction family tree?

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Image source Many people spend vast tracts of time trawling through family photos, birth, death, and marriage certificates and onlin...
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