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	<title>Family-School &#38; Community Partnerships</title>
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		<title>Selecting a School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now, most stakeholders in the education system will have heard about the Federal Government&#8217;s My School initiative.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority has set up a website that allows visitors to compare NAPLAN test results of almost 10,000 Australian schools.
One of the specific uses for such a tool is to help parents select [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/selecting-a-school/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Building on the changes wrought by the introduction of a Prep year in 2007, among the themes the Bligh government is opening up for public discussion &#8211; online, at community forums, or in writing &#8211; is Getting Ready For School, in which plans include:
&#8220;&#8230; building up to 240 new kindergartens and providing funding for long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/preparing-for-school/</link>
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		<title>Reggio Emilia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Reggio Emilia philosophy and approach to early childhood education has developed and continues to evolve as a result of over 40 years of experience within a system of municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Parents, who started the schools in the 1940s, continue to participate to ensure the schools reflect the values [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/reggio-emilia/</link>
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		<title>Aussie Educator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-described as &#8220;a total education page for Australia&#8221;, this is a website run by a couple of highly experienced educators.
&#8220;We have a combined period of almost 70 years teaching as classroom practitioners, executives, principal, librarian, casual and Relief from Face to Face teacher.
In all these situations, we were often in the difficult position of not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/aussie-educator/</link>
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		<title>Child care and early education in Australia &#8211; The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Linda J Harrison, Judy A Ungerer, Grant J Smith, Stephen  R Zubrick, Sarah Wise with Frances Press, Manjula Waniganayake and The LSAC Research Consortium
This report was commissioned by the Australian Government Office for Women as part of the Women’s Leadership and Development Programme. The research undertaken for Child care and early education in Australia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/child-care-and-early-education-in-australia-the-longitudinal-study-of-australian-children/</link>
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		<title>More still needed in overhaul of early childhood education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The radical overhaul of Australia’s preschool sector will require better legislating for the sector and increasing the number of early childhood education teachers, according to a policy paper released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).
The policy brief, Preschool Education in Australia, summarises the current structure of preschool in Australian in contemplation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/more-still-needed-in-overhaul-of-early-childhood-education/</link>
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		<title>National Quality Framework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Quality Framework will put in place a new National Quality Standard to ensure high quality and consistent early childhood education and care across Australia.
These changes will help providers to improve their services in the areas that impact on a child’s development and empower families to make informed choices about which service is best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/national-quality-framework/</link>
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		<title>Early Childhood Education National Partnership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 29 November 2008 meeting of the Council of Australian Governments agreed on an Early Childhood Education National Partnership to support universal access to quality early childhood education whereby every child in the year before school has access to a pre-school program delivered:

in      the 12 months prior to full-time schooling; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/early-childhood-education-national-partnership/</link>
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		<title>Australian Early Development Index</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, the AEDI was completed nationwide for the first time. Between 1 May and 31 July, information was collected on 261,203 children (97.5 per cent of the estimated national five-year-old population). This involved 15,528 teachers from 7423 Government, Catholic and Independent schools around Australia.
The initial results (available from December 2009) provide a snapshot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2010/02/australian-early-development-index/</link>
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		<title>Parents urged to increase schools contact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alison Kershaw, Press Association Education Correspondent, 5 November 2009
Parents are taking a back seat in their child&#8217;s education, with almost two thirds saying they have little contact with their youngster&#8217;s teacher, a survey found today.
Over one in five (22 per cent) of parents say they do not see the benefit in keeping in regular contact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.familyschool.org.au/2009/11/parents-urged-to-increase-schools-contact/</link>
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