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Education Review discusses the stories and issues we were talking about this week.

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The vast majority of Australian schools use some form of streaming. Oscar Hedstrom, a Melbourne teacher, questions its logic and interrogates the "caste system" it creates.

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Louise FitzRoy, creator of the Schools Program From Paddock to Plate, shares her ambitious plans for food education in Australia.

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Professor Mary Ryan talks to Education Review about the need for more learning partnerships between universities and school.

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Louise Fitzory, creator of the Schools Program From Paddock to Plate, shares her ambitious plans for food education in Australia.

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Meet the Davenports: a family of traveling filmmakers based in the Blue Mountains. There’s mum and dad Erin and Jules, as well as three boys: Sebastian (11), Aiden (10) and Saxon (7). The itinerant nature of the parent’s work and lifestyle makes a conventional schooling impossible. With part-time ‘formal’ classroom schooling not permitted in NSW, the boys are 100% schooled by their parents. (They prefer to use the term 'world-schooled' over 'homeschooled'.)Education Review talked with the family a fortnight after they'd returned from a trip around Tasmania, which was funded by the 2019 Real Life Classroom Initiative.

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University of the Sunshine Coast lecturer in curriculum and pedagogy Dr Shelley Davidow on how final year school students are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of stress that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making.

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Early this month, the Women in STEM Decadal Plan was released. Award-winning teacher and geoscientist Suzy Urbaniak spoke with Education Review on what needs to be done to turn the plan's recommendations into reality.

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The NAPLAN 2018 National Report has dropped. Dr Kathryn Shine, from Curtin University’s School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, talks with us here on fresh insights, and why NAPLAN continues to attract criticism a decade after it was introduced.

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