​School leaders from across Sydney have shared their hopes for 2024, from vying for class dux to aspiring heart surgeons and talented athletes including our very own Head Prefect Chloe J and Vice Head Prefect Penelope J.
There is a tendency in education for apparently logical solutions to backfire. The NAPLAN system is a case in point.
We are presently grappling with some unsettling phenomena. One of these is the rejection of expertise.
In principle it is hard to object to minimum standards for literacy and numeracy in the HSC.
Like most schools we have many ways of providing public recognition, but we do need to be judicious in how, and how much, we do it.