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Learning Lessons. The future of small-group tutoring
Executive Summary Despite initially being envisaged as a temporary program in response to COVID-19 pandemic school closures, small-group tutoring has …
Executive Summary Despite initially being envisaged as a temporary program in response to COVID-19 pandemic school closures, small-group tutoring has …
Introduction A number of recent events, including most notably the plebiscite on same sex marriage in 2017 and the Voice …
Introduction Australian students’ results on international tests of mathematics (TIMMS) and numeracy (PISA) lag behind many comparable countries and have …
Foreword I am for peace, but whenever I speak of it, they are for war. — Psalm 120:7 War is …
Executive summary Better early identification of students struggling with mathematics is a critical step in addressing underachievement Evidence shows virtually …
The Centre for Independent Studies welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Australian Energy Regulator’s review of the Cost Benefit …
Introduction In 2000, renewable energy supplied less than 1% of electricity in the National Electricity Market (NEM) that encompasses Australia’s …
The media like to report federal budgets in terms of lists of winners and losers, with the unstated assumption that …
Executive summary Every Australian classroom and school rely on the support of instructional materials in delivering lessons, assigning tasks to …
Introduction Why, despite decades of expenditure on Aboriginal affairs, do solutions to ‘Closing the Gap’ in life outcomes for Indigenous …
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired bureaucrats and diplomats has dismissed …
When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America, as the sole remaining superpower, …
For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia and end their suffering is …
While in Australia with the Centre for Independent Studies, John Mearsheimer took time to speak to ABC Radio’s Queensland Drive …
As 2022 draws to a close, most people will be glad to see the back of it. The post-Cold War …
US midterm elections are always a vote of confidence in incumbents, and this year’s midterms are expected to inflict severe …
Australia is in trouble with China — again. This week the Chinese ambassador in Canberra, Xiao Qian, came close to …
“The process of coming to grips with one’s limits is never easy,” Henry Kissinger once wrote about the American experience …
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way, surprisingly, across the globe and into the Bangladeshi …
It’s important, in the interests of constructive debate, to recognise when political leaders who have been the object of serious criticism in the past turn out to have done something right and to praise them fully for it.