Essays & reportage
9 April 2020
The success of Canada’s education system can help us rethink our own
Summer season
16 March 2020
No longer can non-government schools be said to be saving taxpayer dollars
International
24 February 2020
In key areas, America’s performance is slipping compared to its peers
From the archive
24 January 2020
The decades-long expansion of public funding to private schools has done the opposite of what its proponents claim
Books & arts
12 December 2019
Books | Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform
Essays & reportage
9 December 2019
Only fifteen minutes from Parliament House, four Canberra schools reveal the growing segregation in Australian education — and how government policy is at its heart
Books & arts
3 December 2019
Another bad PISA report suggests that Australia has not learned the basic lesson: school reform won’t work in the absence of major structural change
Essays & reportage
22 October 2019
Can a successful social investment model be used in aged care and elsewhere?
Essays & reportage
15 October 2019
Is an opportunity being lost in the midst of the Chinese student boom?
National affairs
1 October 2019
Uncertain goals and doubts about effectiveness have prompted a major reappraisal
National affairs
25 September 2019
Myths about teachers’ pay are derailing the Australian debate
Essays & reportage
28 July 2019
Cutting working conditions won’t get us out of the current malaise
National affairs
26 February 2019
The Morrison government ignores the case for expanding access to preschool education at its peril
National affairs
1 February 2019
Focusing on local schools is the first step to restoring equity in education
Books & arts
29 January 2019
Books | How much have the Irish contributed to an Australian identity? The debate continues
Essays & reportage
17 January 2019
Gonski called time on Australia’s “industrial” model of “mass education.” But does the diagnosis — and the prescription — reflect classroom reality?
National affairs
11 December 2018
An outback town’s gamble on cutting Indigenous crime is paying remarkable dividends
Essays & reportage
18 September 2018
An outback town finds a way to cut Indigenous crime and imprisonment where governments have failed
Books & arts
16 August 2018
Books | As Gabbie Stroud’s memoir shows, reformers will get nowhere if they don’t take teachers with them
National affairs
4 May 2018
The latest Gonski report points a way to the future of school reform, but has not broken with its disastrous past
National affairs
20 April 2018
Buried in a Treasury report is the data that shows where most of the jobs are going
National affairs
20 April 2018
The second Gonski report has been presented to the federal government, and will soon to be made public. Will it back innovative ideas to improve schools — and if it does, will…
National affairs
28 March 2018
By promising special funding deals for Catholic schools, Labor is reviving the earliest deal-making in the “state aid” battle. What did that compromise actually achieve?
National affairs
7 March 2018
The former NSW education minister says Australia has a cultural problem when it comes to schooling
National affairs
5 March 2018
Labor’s shadow education minister faces the problem of working out why school reform has failed, and what a federal education minister could do about it
National affairs
22 February 2018
A failed experiment in market-led education needs to be buried once and for all
National affairs
19 February 2018
Rising averages mask deepening inequalities in Indigenous education
Books & arts
24 January 2018
Books | A senior vice-chancellor argues for big changes in tertiary education — but not in universities
National affairs
11 January 2018
Before he joined the Age, Ron Tandberg played a key role in Victorian teachers’ campaign for professional recognition
National affairs
9 November 2017
How can money make an educational difference? In his submission to the second Gonski review, Dean Ashenden offered some suggestions