Posted by Unknown | 4:34 PM

On Wednesday 13th February the Australian Parliament finally offered an apology to Indigenous Australians (HT to Jason Goroncy for posting t...

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Posted by Unknown | 8:20 PM

The Minister for Education has announced funding of $800,000 for a Family-School and Community Partnership Bureau that will help develop par...

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Posted by Unknown | 7:10 AM

As a young Dad (25+ years ago) one of the most wonderful times each week was Saturday morning when I'd take my daughters to the local li...

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Posted by Unknown | 10:55 PM

I mentioned in my first post on the importance of play that while children's play is critical to optimal child development, increasingl...

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Posted by Unknown | 5:07 PM

Children's play is seen by psychologists, educators and paediatricians as so important to optimal child development that it has been rec...

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Posted by Unknown | 12:30 PM

My colleague Brian Cambourne from the University of Wollongong has reminded me that the National Council for Teachers of English (an interna...

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