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Books & Arts
Schooling’s Ozymandias
Dean Ashenden
12 November 2021
A new analysis of Australian education provides clues as to what’s gone wrong
Books & Arts
Have I been excommunicated?
Frank Bongiorno
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
From the archive
Finding the Moree way
Robert Milliken
11 June 2021
Aboriginal people in the town famously visited by the Freedom Ride are taking an innovative approach to their community’s problems
National Affairs
Promoting equity is one thing, achieving it is another
Chris Bonnor
18 February 2021
Good intentions won’t solve the problem of Australia’s increasingly segregated school system
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
Less choice, less affordability: the private school subsidy paradox
Tom Greenwell
24 January 2020
The decades-long expansion of public funding to private schools has done the opposite of what its proponents claim
Books & Arts
Consequences, unintended and intended
Janet McCalman
12 December 2019
Books
| Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform
Essays & Reportage
Everyone loses when schools are segregated… but some more than others
Tom Greenwell
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
What is to be done about Australian schooling?
Dean Ashenden
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
National Affairs
Has NAPLAN failed its most important test?
Tom Greenwell
1 October 2019
Uncertain goals and doubts about effectiveness have prompted a major reappraisal
National Affairs
Peer pressures
Julie Sonnemann and Jonathan Nolan
25 September 2019
Myths about teachers’ pay are derailing the Australian debate
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
Books & Arts
“I don’t believe I left teaching. Teaching left me”
Chris Bonnor
16 August 2018
Books
| As Gabbie Stroud’s memoir shows, reformers will get nowhere if they don’t take teachers with them
National Affairs
Creating child-centred institutions
Jennifer Martin & Matthew Ricketson
28 June 2018
The royal commission has shown how institutions can rebuild their relationships with the children in their care
National Affairs
An end to the industrial model of schooling?
Dean Ashenden
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
Has Gonski stepped outside the square?
Chris Bonnor
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
What if Goulburn’s Catholic schools were closed again?
Chris Bonnor
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
The Piccoli prescription
Tom Greenwell
7 March 2018
The former NSW education minister says Australia has a cultural problem when it comes to schooling
National Affairs
Dear Ms Plibersek
Dean Ashenden
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
Closing some gaps, opening others
Chris Bonnor
19 February 2018
Rising averages mask deepening inequalities in Indigenous education
National Affairs
Tandberg and the teachers
Bill Hannan
11 January 2018
Before he joined the
Age
, Ron Tandberg played a key role in Victorian teachers’ campaign for professional recognition
National Affairs
Six propositions for Gonski 2.0
Dean Ashenden
9 November 2017
How can money make an educational difference? In his submission to the second Gonski review,
Dean Ashenden
offered some suggestions
National Affairs
A rare opportunity to make schools work better
Chris Bonnor
12 October 2017
Gonski 2.0 is a chance to influence school policy for the better, but the window closes soon
Essays & Reportage
Inside Australia’s first virtual school
Tom Greenwell
28 September 2017
Could a new model of online learning break down the growing divide between Australian schools?
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