We have a great window of opportunity now to finally follow through on education reforms and get long-term improvements for Australia’s education system. Let’s not waste it like we’ve wasted billions of dollars before on ideas that don’t work.
When a society forgets the difference between learning and performance, between a mind and a computer algorithm, the result isn’t progress; it’s parody.
If Australia wants productivity growth, it needs to start in the classroom.
Taxpayers know all too well that massive increases in education funding (approaching $100 billion a year) have had little impact on results.
The best that can be said about the latest national attendance data is that things are no worse than last year, but if NAPLAN results are to improve, more students must turn up to class.
The national review of the F–2 maths curriculum is a welcome chance to put the things that matter most at …
How do we fix the alarming decline in numeracy among young Australians? The answer is to catch them when they are very young
Canberra’s bold plan to revolutionise education oversight faces a stark choice: become a game-changer or just another bloated bureaucracy.
Staff unions are mobilising, newspapers are lamenting, and politicians are hand-wringing, but the arithmetic is unforgiving.
NAPLAN is not so much a mirror as a house of mirrors.