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National Affairs Reimagining choice and competition in schools Tom Greenwell 19 April 2023 Parental choice or equitable access? There’s a way of reconciling the two National Affairs Selective schools, a problem that could become a solution Chris Bonnor 7 February 2023 The rising number of selective government schools is harming other students. But could those schools become part of a better solution? Essays & Reportage Unproductive schooling, counterproductive reform Dean Ashenden 19 October 2022 Three new Productivity Commission reports highlight big problems in schooling and school reform — and in the commission’s own thinking Books & Arts Field of dreams Dean Ashenden 27 September 2022 Does sport have anything to teach Australian schools?

National Affairs Should private primary schools be free? Tom Greenwell 11 August 2020 Adrian Piccoli’s plan to fully fund non-government schools would reduce educational inequality National Affairs Don’t waste a good crisis, even in schooling Dean Ashenden 9 April 2020 A new settlement might just appeal to Coalition supporters, and to Labor’s Essays & Reportage Why do Canada’s schools outperform Australia’s? Tom Greenwell 9 April 2020 The success of Canada’s education system can help us rethink our own Summer season When private schools go public Chris Bonnor and Rachel Wilson with Paul Kidson and Tom Greenwell 16 March 2020 No longer can non-government schools be said to be saving taxpayer dollars

National Affairs Paying for class in Australia’s schools Chris Bonnor 1 February 2019 Focusing on local schools is the first step to restoring equity in education Essays & Reportage Are we really running schools like factories? Tom Greenwell 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 Breakthrough at Bourke Robert Milliken 11 December 2018 An outback town’s gamble on cutting Indigenous crime is paying remarkable dividends Essays & Reportage Revival on the Darling Robert Milliken 18 September 2018 An outback town finds a way to cut Indigenous crime and imprisonment where governments have failed