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Dean Ashenden

Dean Ashenden has been a consultant and adviser to schools and school systems in every state and territory and at the national level. He is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

National Affairs Dean Ashenden 15 July 2013 It may be that school policy can learn more from the Australian Football League than from Shanghai or Finland, says Dean Ashenden
Essays & Reportage Dean Ashenden 2 July 2013 The Grattan Institute has much of importance to contribute to the education debate, writes Dean Ashenden. Its hits and misses reveal a lot about Australian schooling, and… National Affairs Dean Ashenden 1 March 2013 Sure, smaller classes would be good, but at what opportunity costs, asks Dean Ashenden Essays & Reportage Dean Ashenden 15 February 2013 The current system of teacher education isn’t working for many students. Dean Ashenden looks at the alternatives, and their adversaries Essays & Reportage Dean Ashenden 22 November 2012 Twenty-five years ago, John Dawkins dramatically reshaped higher education. His critics still fail to distinguish the good from the bad in his reforms, writes Dean Ashenden
National Affairs Dean Ashenden 17 October 2012 All’s not necessarily well in the classroom – even when it happens to end well
National Affairs Dean Ashenden 5 September 2012 The government has at last come up with the outline of a strategy for reforming schools, writes Dean Ashenden. The worry is in what the prime minister didn’t say National Affairs Dean Ashenden 2 August 2012 Gonski’s recommendations can work if we keep in mind how they might fail, writes Dean Ashenden Books & Arts Dean Ashenden 28 June 2012 Dean Ashenden looks at Australians’ enthusiasm for new foods and our readiness to adapt, improvise and reinvent Essays & Reportage Dean Ashenden 13 June 2012 Restless innovation saved Australian schools from their structural problems, writes Dean Ashenden. But now the strains are well and truly showing
National Affairs Dean Ashenden 5 April 2012 One vital question has been overlooked in the coverage of the federal government’s My University website, writes Dean Ashenden. Why duplicate a service that already exists?
National Affairs Dean Ashenden 24 February 2012 Strongly argued, thoroughly evidenced, and unlikely to succeed. Dean Ashenden looks at the Gonski report on school funding Summer season Dean Ashenden 10 June 2010 The remarkable collaboration of anthropologists Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen, “bearers, shapers and captives of the Australian conscience” Books & Arts Dean Ashenden 15 March 2010 Keith Windschuttle brings the temperament of a barrister to his latest subject, the stolen generations Essays & Reportage Dean Ashenden 2 June 2009 For three decades the Australian War Memorial has been the focus of a struggle between two ways of knowing the past, writes Dean Ashenden
Essays & Reportage Dean Ashenden 19 February 2009 There’s plenty of scope for the federal government’s “revolution” in schooling but few signs of the ideas and resources it would require, writes Dean … Essays & Reportage Dean Ashenden 18 December 2008 Two films made sixty years apart are a reminder of how hard it is to tell the story of Australia, writes Dean Ashenden