If we catch them young, kids will solve our numeracy crisis
How do we fix the alarming decline in numeracy among young Australians? The answer is to catch them when they are very young
Education Commentaries
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Clare’s new education body offers a real chance for reform
Canberra’s bold plan to revolutionise education oversight faces a stark choice: become a game-changer or just another bloated bureaucracy.
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Unis must be run like a business, whether academics like it or not
Staff unions are mobilising, newspapers are lamenting, and politicians are hand-wringing, but the arithmetic is unforgiving.
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Benchmarked into oblivion
NAPLAN is not so much a mirror as a house of mirrors.
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We need better returns on education investment
Billions of dollars have been poured into school funding in the state over the past decade. We deserve better than a system that spends more every year but keeps delivering the same results.
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Education Minister Jason Clare must ensure new schools pact benefits nation
The latest NAPLAN results confirm the sobering truth that our school system continues to underdeliver despite this investment.
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The 3 intergenerational challenges Chalmers’ roundtable must fix
The government’s upcoming Productivity Roundtable risks being yet another fest of short-term electoral thinking.
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Labor’s education report card is one step forward, two steps back
Efforts to put strict conditions on additional school funding to the states to improve outcomes have already been undercut by creating an alibi for failure.
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Campuses shouldn’t be safe spaces to breed intolerance
A curious trend has taken hold: the re-segregation of student housing, common areas, and even graduation ceremonies—this time along lines of race, religion, and sex. Universities insist this is progress. In truth, it is a step backward, a retreat from the ideals they once championed.
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How not to waste Gonski school funding
Additional federal money may unfortunately extend and expand inefficient and ineffective practices rather than lift the quality of teaching.