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National affairs Eating an elephant Dean Ashenden 9 May 2025 What could an incoming education minister do about schools? National affairs Are we there yet? Dean Ashenden 28 March 2025 At last, the Gonski money — which raises a new set of questions Essays & reportage The trickle-down theory of schooling Dean Ashenden 6 March 2025 An organisation set up to distribute academic research to teachers gets off on the wrong foot, and stays there National affairs Regional drift Hamish McDonald 7 February 2025 A Darwin school’s decision to drop Indonesian points to a broader failure

National affairs Getting schooling wrong Dean Ashenden 27 September 2024 The Monthly and the Saturday Paper are campaigning for fairer school funding. But are they missing the deeper story? National affairs Slippery slopes Chris Bonnor 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 How far we’ve come, and how far we have not Dean Ashenden 10 July 2024 Vilified for his “exhibitionist ecclesiastical activism,” an Italian priest created a fertile place of learning National affairs The changing fortunes of politicians’ schools Chris Bonnor 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 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? Books & arts Pleasure and intimacy Alecia Simmonds 12 September 2022 Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education National affairs Unbeaching the whale Dean Ashenden 6 September 2022 The education revolution failed — and so did its way of thinking