Children’s mathematical competencies in school impact on their long-term outcomes at work and in general life.
Developing creative and critical thinking is a major priority of educators and policymakers. This is promoted because of popular views that students today require more creativity and critical thinking than past generations.
Policymakers have increasingly looked to improvements in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) as key to overcoming declining education outcomes. The analysis in …
This paper outlines the evidence and scientific reasons that inquiry based learning reduces academic performance. Why inquiry based learning reduces …
Generational decline in student achievement and teacher expertise in writing skills — the poor cousin of reading skills in Australian …
Indigenous education disadvantage remains among the most pressing and persistent public policy challenges in Australia. Despite bipartisan and intergovernmental commitment …
Overcoming Indigenous education disadvantage is possible with the right teaching approaches and school policies. It demands abandoning flawed and antiquated …
Australia is among the world’s highest-spending countries on schooling. Yet, the educational return on this investment for parents, taxpayers, employers, …
Students from disadvantaged social backgrounds perform worse academically on average than more advantaged students. However, some students and schools from …
Students from disadvantaged social backgrounds perform worse on average academically than more advantaged students. This study investigated Australia’s top-performing disadvantaged …
The Australian election campaign has seen a flurry of new proposals for dealing with the problem of housing affordability. There …
The day before news broke that inflation had surged to 5 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that …
This week, the Reserve Bank increased interest rates by 0.25%. This comes in response to last week’s ABS figures that …
Harvard University is the latest of America’s elite colleges to establish a fund to redress the burden of guilt it says …
Both major political parties support an external review of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) after the election. What should that review …
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way, surprisingly, across the globe and into the Bangladeshi …
Hip pocket issues have always been a key part of any election campaign. In that respect, this election is no …
If it was remarkable how little hype there was going into this year’s budget, the rapid speed at which it …
Two years ago, the Australian winter was marred by vandalism of statues commemorating notable figures in the country’s history. Statues …
Australia’s educators and policymakers now have a less cluttered, clearer, and more knowledge-based school curriculum, following agreement at Friday’s meeting …