Education
The need to learn ‘critical ignoring’
The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless wealth of high-quality information is …
An evidence-based approach for improving student outcomes
There are many ways to teach school students. But research shows only some will significantly improve learning. While most teachers …
School chaplains and the strategy of ‘saving souls’
Many parents at public schools will have little clue that their kids are being targeted as “souls to be saved” …
Religious interference in the public school system
This article is based on extracts from the new report, Teaching not preaching: Making our public schools secular. The extracts …
Give schools a real choice on secular school chaplains
New federal Education Minister Jason Clare has announced a change to the National School Chaplaincy Program to allow schools to …
What’s so offensive about secularism?
Demonising secularism has become something of a sport for the religious right in the United States. Secularists are routinely painted …
Why God has no place in public schools
As I sat in my classrooms at Frenchs Forest Public, Chatswood Public and Forest High, dreaming about my future, I …
112 years on, Religious Instruction remains controversial in Queensland
The genesis – pun intended – of Religious Instruction (RI) in Queensland state schools has its roots in a 1910 …
Building political knowledge is in our nation’s interest
ASIO’s Annual Threat Assessment delivered last week by its Director-General, Mike Burgess, shed light on the organisation’s national security priorities. …
How the school chaplaincy program crosses a line
Last month, as Queensland stepped up its efforts to vaccinate children before the start of the school year as the …
The resignation of Peter Boghossian: What it shows about academic illiberalism
Peter Boghossian is a philosopher and teacher of critical thinking and ethics. He is an old friend of several members …
On prescriptiveness
The ‘RSA Daily’, expertly and conscientiously compiled by Meredith Doig, reaches my email each weekday morning at a time proving …