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National affairs School’s out during the long election campaign Chris Bonnor & Bernie Shepherd 2 June 2016 It’s all there in the latest My School data, write Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd. The downside costs of our present school-funding system are high and rising Books & arts Serious about singing Andrew Ford 6 October 2015 Music | Take singing seriously and you're on your way to solving the problem of music education, writes Andrew Ford National affairs Could Turnbull give a Gonski? Dean Ashenden 24 September 2015 Don’t be surprised if the Coalition embraces an updated Gonski plan for school funding, writes Dean Ashenden National affairs Closing the wrong gaps Chris Bonnor & Bernie Shepherd 24 July 2015 Australia’s school funding system keeps shifting resources towards non-government schools, write Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd. And the argument that…

National affairs Australian schools: the view from Mars Dean Ashenden 24 September 2014 The federal government's competition review is disastrously wrong about education, writes Dean Ashenden Books & arts The war that doesn’t end Bill Hannan 11 September 2014 There is a solution to the plight of pariah schools National affairs Mr Gonski and the social contract Dean Ashenden 22 May 2014 Neither Labor nor the Coalition is rising to the challenge posed by Gonski, writes Dean Ashenden Books & arts A “self-fulfilling, rolling disaster”? Dean Ashenden 5 March 2014 A new narrative for Australian schooling would accept diversity and competition, but competition for achievement rather than for students or money, writes Dean Ashenden

National affairs Student achievement: frozen by inequity Bernie Shepherd 10 April 2013 Amid the fraught discussions about Gonski, the need to resolve deep-seated problems of equity and student achievement remains urgent, writes Bernie Shepherd National affairs Class sizes and the dead hand of history Dean Ashenden 1 March 2013 Sure, smaller classes would be good, but at what opportunity costs, asks Dean Ashenden Essays & reportage Evolutionary tinkering in revolutionary times Dean Ashenden 15 February 2013 The current system of teacher education isn’t working for many students. Dean Ashenden looks at the alternatives, and their adversaries National affairs Gonski and Gillard won’t fix this problem Chris Bonnor 28 November 2012 In a forthcoming paper for the Centre for Policy Development, Chris Bonnor describes a worsening school equity problem that will persist for decades to come