Lucy Carroll
Lucy Carroll was the education editor and a health reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
A year ago, this girls’ school swapped smartphones for Nokias. Here’s what happened
The private boarding school radically overhauled its smartphone policy last year after noticing a decline in the school’s sense of community.
- Lucy Carroll
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The north shore private school that has joined the $50,000 fees club
Principals say private schools are likely to lift fees 4 to 7 per cent next year, and at the current rate of increase, prices could top $70,000 within the next seven years.
- Lucy Carroll
This HSC subject has an image problem. Chantal knows what could fix it
The proportion of girls taking HSC economics is at its lowest level in more than three decades, falling from almost half of students in the early 1990s to a third this year.
- Lucy Carroll
This eastern suburbs school didn’t have a selective class. So parents created their own
From term one next year, the school will run a full-time selective stream after places were cut at the local opportunity class.
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Girls and boys given equal places in selective schools under radical overhaul
At Sydney’s oldest fully selective high school, Fort Street, girls make up just 24 per cent of the year 7 cohort.
- Lucy Carroll
The high-scaling HSC subjects students are abandoning – and the ones they are flocking to
Extension 2 mathematics will have its largest-ever cohort when the HSC begins on Thursday. But the picture isn’t so rosy for English.
- Lucy Carroll and Mary Ward
The court battle is over. There will be girls at Newington
An appeal against a court decision which gave the green light for the school to admit girls was thrown out on Tuesday.
- Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll
How this Sydney private girls school doubled its NAPLAN high achievers
Queenwood has doubled its success in year 9 NAPLAN writing – thanks to one teacher’s determination to change how it was taught.
- Lucy Carroll
The co-ed trailblazers, the lockdown cohort: Sydney students reflect on finishing Year 12
Four different students. Four very different high schools. As Year 12 waved goodbye to school this week, we asked some students to reflect on their journey.
- Emily Kowal and Lucy Carroll
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‘Children are up to two years ahead’: Calls to regulate billion-dollar private tutoring industry
More than half of students attend private academic tutoring at some Sydney schools, while coaching centres are running at least 500 maths, English and HSC tutoring classes each week.
- Lucy Carroll