The first in a new seven-week series in which Barry Turner and Maureen O'Connor examine schools. schooling and the education system, with parents' needs in mind. They report on issues that make education news, answer listeners' letters and decipher some of the jargon that trips so easily off the tongues of ' educationists '.
Producer JENNY DE YONG
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