Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
Each day this week, EduResearch Matters will publish the views of educational leaders on the state of education …
Improving teacher quality has been central to recent education reform initiatives around the world. However, what counts as …
In the months before the pandemic gripped the world, the NSW Productivity Commission released a presciently titled discussion paper, Kickstarting the Productivity Conversation. Its recently released followup White Paper sets out its plan for rebooting the economy. Lifting school results is part of the plan. The Commission acknowledges the ‘pandemic has shown how quickly schools, …
You would be forgiven for thinking that policy related to schooling is not a major issue in Australia. …
In this blog I’d like to bring together three different lines of educational analysis to show how our …
What kind of schooling system do we want for our kids in Australia? I ask because In England, after almost thirty years of high stakes testing, the Chief Inspector of Schools, Amanda Spielman, is talking about a decline in England’s quality of education and blaming “an endemic pattern of prioritising data and performance results, ahead …
There is a growing trend in education of proposing and enacting policy ideas that are based primarily upon …
The idea to put specialist science and maths teachers into Australian primary schools gained a lot of support after the latest results of international tests were announced. It even became official policy in NSW last year when then Education Minister, Adrian Piccoli, announced a plan to deliver hundreds of specialist STEM (science, technology, engineering and …