Attitude to history has moved from pride to shame
Think of the great Enlightenment philosophers — Hume, Hegel or Kant — and what comes to mind? Religious tolerance, individual …
Education Commentaries
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Linking pay to performance the best way to help teachers
Repeated strikes over pay undermine teachers’ work and prove unions are tin-eared on the need to raise education standards. Rather …
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The new national school curriculum should be celebrated
Australia’s educators and policymakers now have a less cluttered, clearer, and more knowledge-based school curriculum, following agreement at Friday’s meeting …
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For a better class of teacher, invest in smarter training
It is 10 years this week since the release of David Gonski’s landmark report into school funding. The report and its recommendations have cast a decade-long shadow over education policy and politics. Sadly, Australia’s education system is no better off, with slumping student results and little regard for how funding is spent.
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School return plans amid Omicron outbreak should protect face-to-face learning
There is a bit of extra nervous tension in households across Australia this week. School is starting.
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High marks for classroom mediocrity
This week’s Teachers Federation strike in NSW — despite being ruled illegal by the state’s Industrial Relations Commission — saw up to 60,000 public school teachers off the job in a fresh campaign for higher pay and lighter workloads.
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Learning loss of past two decades should be focus of policymakers
School students around the country are finally in exam mode, despite several bids to abandon final year exams due to expectations of pandemic learning losses. However, recent CIS research shows students have generally weathered the pandemic better than predicted.
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Education establishment fails the curriculum reform test
Speaking at the Centre for Independent Studies last month, federal Education Minister Alan Tudge outlined the priorities required to see Australian …
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Policymakers must ensure maths curriculum is evidence based
With Australian mathematics in crisis, the test is on for policymakers to ensure evidence wins the day in our national …
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Pandemic is yet to teach us its true lessons
Reassuring NAPLAN results offer hope that Australian students may escape serious educational harm from the pandemic. However, it would be …