Australia Association for Research in Education
School funding
Q:Which major party will fully fund public schools? A:None. Here’s what’s happening
You would be forgiven for thinking that policy related to schooling is not a major issue in Australia. …
Why Simon Birmingham is wrong about school funding
Education ministers from all of Australia’s governments, state, territory and Commonwealth, met on Friday to begin negotiations over …
Turnbull’s $1.2 billion “additional funding” for schools is not additional at all, here’s why
The Turnbull Government budget announced an additional spend of $1.2 billion on schooling between 2018 and 2020. It …
Charter schools: an old, flawed idea and wrong for Australia
A new report proposes Australia adopt a US styled charter school, or UK type academies, approach as a solution to our falling scores on international tests. It even suggests Australia should consider for-profit schools. The report comes from the Centre for Independent Studies, a conservative pro-business pro-privatisation think tank. US charter schools and UK academies …
Urgent: take a closer look at the Abbott Government’s plans for school funding
Two months ago, four proposals for reforming government roles and responsibilities in schooling were leaked from the Abbott …
The ‘right’ to government subsidised choice of schools is another wasteful snout-in-the-trough entitlement
Parents who choose a private school for their child have a ‘right’ to expect governments to help with the costs because they are taxpayers; so the argument goes in Australia. Certainly chief executive of Independent Schools Victoria, Michelle Green, makes such an argument. But where does this so-called ‘right’ come from? Neither Michelle Green nor …
Australia’s most disadvantaged children invisible in official NAPLAN results
It seems simple enough. The idea behind the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) testing program …
URGENT: we need to act on equity in Australian schools now
There is an equity problem in Australia and we urgently need to talk about it. Christopher Pyne couldn’t …
Reid responds to Donnelly’s “inaccuracies and obfuscations”
My blog of 3/8/2014 was an edited version of the opening statement I made in a debate with …
Kevin Donnelly replies:the Liberal Government’s policy of independent public schools will raise education standards in Australia
(Note: What follows is an edited and expanded version of Dr Kevin Donnelly’s presentation at the recent ACSA …