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The Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth (ARACY) has released a report card on the well being of Australia's young peop...

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Posted by Unknown | 9:00 AM

Hugh Mackay suggests what Geographers, writers, sociologists, urban planners, architects and anthropologists have been telling us for a long...

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The Kings School (in Sydney) hosted an interesting conference in October, The National Boys’ Education Conference with the theme of “Balan...

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Posted by Unknown | 11:55 AM

Listening to your child reading is more complex than people think. While I've written previously on reading to your child ( here ), I ...

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1. The many purposes of literature As I have argued in previous posts ( here , here and here ), we learn from literature. Literature brin...

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