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National affairs Peer pressures Tom Greenwell 15 March 2017 New PISA results confirm that the social makeup of schools affects the performance of individual students Essays & reportage Gonski at five: vision or hallucination? Ken Boston 16 February 2017 Australia urgently needs a new school funding structure, says one of the authors of the Gonski report, and it’s not the one Labor, the Coalition or their critics have in mind Essays & reportage “We wouldn’t want to be where you guys are, that’s for sure” Tom Greenwell 1 February 2017 Schools in Australia and New Zealand set off in opposite directions in the 1970s. Tom Greenwell looks at where they have ended up National affairs Money, schools and politics: some FAQs Dean Ashenden 28 September 2016 Federal minister Simon Birmingham has fired the first shots in the latest battle of the school funding wars. Here’s our short guide to the terrain

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… Essays & reportage Wrestling with Sir Ken Dean Ashenden 24 June 2015 Dean Ashenden takes on the sixties, GERM, and the world’s best-known educational revolutionary National affairs The empire strikes back Dean Ashenden 22 February 2015 Christopher Pyne’s teacher education review wants serious reform, but it may serve to protect the monopoly that produced the problems, writes Dean Ashenden

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 International Independent schools: an idea whose time has passed Francis Beckett 12 February 2014 Christopher Pyne’s plan for “independent” public schools bears a family resemblance to the academies and free schools that have undermined British education,… National affairs My school and yours: the disappearing achievers Chris Bonnor 11 February 2014 A new analysis of schools data shows why we mustn’t walk away from the promise of Gonski, writes Chris Bonnor