Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, 1993 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. See …
View ArticleLet’s teach for mastery — not test scores
Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven’t always grasped the basics? Yes, it’s complicated,...
View ArticleYear 8 Chemistry is available
My latest book, Year 8 Chemistry, is now available for free download for Mac, iPad or iPhone. Check it out here. See more books here.
View ArticleThe Hot List !!!
Each year The Educator magazine announces its list of the “hottest” educators in Australia. And guess who made the cut in 2017, yep – Me … See the full Hot List here. Read more about why I was...
View ArticleA brief history of Fearing Change
“The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future” Nelson Mandela The graph above highlights the past century of technology change we have seen and it reminded...
View ArticleWORLD CLASS: How to build a 21st-century school system
World Class, written by Andreas Schleicher, is a fantastic book summarising huge amounts of research to help teachers, principals and policy makers improve the global education landscape. The book can...
View ArticleOne of Australia’s 10 Most Influential Educational Leaders, 2019
The Knowledge Review recently announced Australia’s 10 Most Influential Educational Leaders (online magazine), 2019 … and it turns out I was one of them. So that is cool! Read more here. Advertisements
View ArticleMillions of children learn only very little.
For many children schools do not live up to their promise: in many schools children learn very little. This is a problem in rich countries. By the end of primary school about 9% of children in...
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