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Essays & reportage The Grattan line Dean Ashenden 2 July 2013 The Grattan Institute has much of importance to contribute to the education debate, writes Dean Ashenden. Its hits and misses reveal a lot about Australian schooling, and… 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 Creating and choosing good schools Chris Bonnor 12 July 2012 Creating better schools is a long and often tortuous process, writes Chris Bonnor. The first step is to focus on policies that can actually work Essays & reportage Good at gardening, hopeless at engineering Dean Ashenden 13 June 2012 Restless innovation saved Australian schools from their structural problems, writes Dean Ashenden. But now the strains are well and truly showing National affairs Gonski the game-changer Chris Bonnor 29 February 2012 The Gonski report has brought together an enormous body of evidence to show why equity must be at the centre of school policy, writes Chris Bonnor, and has decisively… National affairs Gonski’s review: another salvo in the Hundred Years’ War Dean Ashenden 24 February 2012 Strongly argued, thoroughly evidenced, and unlikely to succeed. Dean Ashenden looks at the Gonski report on school funding

National affairs Incremental inequity Daniel Nethery 6 October 2010 The expanded Education Tax Refund should be on the list of election promises up for reappraisal, writes Daniel Nethery National affairs Back to schools Ben Eltham 23 July 2010 Schools policy is back on the election agenda, writes Ben Eltham. But will it lead to substantial reform? National affairs Are autonomous schools the answer? Dahle Suggett 15 July 2010 Australian policymakers are undoubtedly watching developments in Britain and the United States with interest. But how much can we learn from systems that are so different from our… National affairs NAPLAN and the states: an intriguing result Dahle Suggett 18 May 2010 Whatever NAPLAN’s limitations, it does provide intriguing information about how different school systems perform, writes Dahle Suggett