National affairs
9 May 2025
What could an incoming education minister do about schools?
National affairs
28 March 2025
At last, the Gonski money — which raises a new set of questions
Essays & reportage
6 March 2025
An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there
National affairs
7 February 2025
A Darwin school’s decision to drop Indonesian points to a broader failure
National affairs
28 January 2025
Can South Australia’s flicker of educational inspiration be turned into a beacon?
Essays & reportage
10 December 2024
A taken-for-granted is being questioned at last, with implications in education and elsewhere
Books & arts
5 November 2024
The case for valuing and protecting “connective labour” in an increasingly automated and disconnected world
Books & arts
1 November 2024
A Lutheran pastor introduced to remote communities a different way of thinking about schooling for Aboriginal children
National affairs
24 October 2024
Labor’s “national approach” to schooling has failed. It’s time for a rethink
Books & arts
17 October 2024
Two sociologists and a teacher wrestle with meritocracy
National affairs
27 September 2024
The Monthly and the Saturday Paper are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story?
National affairs
26 August 2024
NAPLAN’s scorecard has been back in the news, but could those test results be hiding a more important failure?
Essays & reportage
10 July 2024
Vilified for his “exhibitionist ecclesiastical activism,” an Italian priest created a fertile place of learning
National affairs
3 May 2024
Before federal MPs vote on a new national schools agreement they should look at what’s happened to the schools they once attended
Essays & reportage
25 March 2024
A different kind of school reform is needed — reform of governance, the sector system and the daily work of students and teachers
Books & arts
20 December 2023
Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder?
National affairs
18 August 2023
Successive reviews of school education have promised a brighter future, but how many of them have gone back to see what went wrong last time?
Books & arts
2 June 2023
An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it
National affairs
19 April 2023
Parental choice or equitable access? There’s a way of reconciling the two
National affairs
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
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
27 September 2022
Does sport have anything to teach Australian schools?
Books & arts
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
National affairs
6 September 2022
The education revolution failed — and so did its way of thinking
Books & arts
12 November 2021
A new analysis of Australian education provides clues as to what’s gone wrong
Books & arts
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
From the archive
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
18 February 2021
Good intentions won’t solve the problem of Australia’s increasingly segregated school system
National affairs
11 August 2020
Adrian Piccoli’s plan to fully fund non-government schools would reduce educational inequality
National affairs
9 April 2020
A new settlement might just appeal to Coalition supporters, and to Labor’s