For Brittney Wilson, Britt, who is a wheelchair user, attending a mainstream school saw her placed somewhere between inclusion and exclusion.
   In her experience, the other students weren’t the problem, Britt had many supportive friends, but while the assistance of a teachers aids was necessary to help her, the regulation and the attention she received from the TAs was often a source of friction. Read more

It can be tempting to believe that career education need not start in earnest until students are reaching the end of school.
   The truth is, career ideas are shaped very young - younger than most adults think.
   By putting students in the driving seat from an early age and giving them a sense of agency over their future, they're far more likely to adapt changes and surprises that life will have in store.
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If we tried to learn all of the words we know through the ubiquitous Friday morning spelling tests, that would amount to 6,000 tests, over about 150 years of schooling - and that’s assuming we had a perfect score each time.
   Clearly, learning to spell is not about remembering words by heart, and spelling tests have little influence on our spelling abilities outside the testing context. Read more

Corwin, a professional learning service provider, and Brightpath, a provider of assessment and reporting software, are coming together to support and empower school leaders and teachers to improve student learning by focusing on impact.
   Together, they will reach more educators and provide more professional learning opportunities that will make a significant impact on teaching and educational leadership across the Asia Pacific. Read more

Early entry programs offer a way to alleviate the pressure and the indications are that students who have been through the process tend to do very well at the tertiary level.
   Swinburne originally offered a limited number of places via their Early Entry Program because the university wanted to track these students' performance and the data have shown that they tend to perform so the program will be expanded.
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The Asian Physics Olympiad is renowned for being one of the toughest physics competitions for high school students in the world and a Sydney Year 12 student has outperformed 200 students from 28 countries to win it.
  A Knox Grammar School student won a gold medal along with two special awards for the highest laboratory mark and highest overall score in the competition.
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