School Routines

9 minutes of reading / Schooling and Education Options / Child Development, Education and School Life, Resources, Schools, Social and Emotional Skills, Young Children / By Lise Copeland

There are several things to consider when putting together before and after school routines for children, including your child’s age and personality. Something that works for the family down the road may not work for you.

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Federal budget and education funding

7 minutes of reading / Schooling and Education Options / Catholic schools, Gonski, ICSEA, Independent schools, private school, Private schools, School fees, school funding, Schools / By Lise Copeland

We hear about “Kids before politics” when there is so much horse-trading and meaning-less mud-slinging going on, it is hard to say whether we have ended up with a donkey or a stallion in last night’s passing into law of the so-called Gonski2.0 funding.

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Good personal values. Picture of bust of Gorgias

Good personal values – The objective of education

2 minutes of reading / Schooling and Education Options / CriticalThinking, Education, Education and School Life, Schools, Social and Emotional Skills / By Lise Copeland

The excerpt is from the Greek sophist Gorgias who dwells on the qualities that make great men great in this funeral oration. I think it has something for us today.

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