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Turning up a first step to success
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.
Education Commentaries
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Give teachers clarity: Maths curriculum should build the staircase, not set the high jump
The national review of the F–2 maths curriculum is a welcome chance to put the things that matter most at …
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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
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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.