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The MySchool site lists each Australian school in a group of 60 ’similar’ institutions using the ‘Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage’ (ICSEA). As explained at the site:
The performance of schools on NAPLAN tests is greatly affected by a range of student intake and school location characteristics. When comparing schools, it is important to compare like with like. The [...]
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I support transparency, governments sharing information with citizens and believe schools must improve by using data, along with a range of other innovations.
I applaud the Federal Government’s Digital and Building Education Revolution policies, while recognising far greater vision is needed, as they go nowhere near far enough in regards to innovation or funding.
I believe that Mr Rudd and Ms Gillard have a [...]
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Older internet users are catching up with Generation Y in the US it appears. Wonder what the Australian trends are in this area?
Also, the latest data on German online habits reveals that 26 million German Internet users viewed more than 3 billion videos online in May 2008. That really is a staggering number of videos [...]
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