National Affairs
4 May 2018
The latest Gonski report points a way to the future of school reform, but has not broken with its disastrous past
National Affairs
20 April 2018
The second Gonski report has been presented to the federal government, and will soon to be made public. Will it back innovative ideas to improve schools — and if it does, will…
National Affairs
28 March 2018
By promising special funding deals for Catholic schools, Labor is reviving the earliest deal-making in the “state aid” battle. What did that compromise actually achieve?
National Affairs
7 March 2018
The former NSW education minister says Australia has a cultural problem when it comes to schooling
National Affairs
5 March 2018
Labor’s shadow education minister faces the problem of working out why school reform has failed, and what a federal education minister could do about it
National Affairs
19 February 2018
Rising averages mask deepening inequalities in Indigenous education
National Affairs
11 January 2018
Before he joined the Age, Ron Tandberg played a key role in Victorian teachers’ campaign for professional recognition
National Affairs
9 November 2017
How can money make an educational difference? In his submission to the second Gonski review, Dean Ashenden offered some suggestions
National Affairs
12 October 2017
Gonski 2.0 is a chance to influence school policy for the better, but the window closes soon
Essays & Reportage
28 September 2017
Could a new model of online learning break down the growing divide between Australian schools?
National Affairs
1 July 2017
A tribute to the influential educationalist and Inside Story contributor Bernie Shepherd
National Affairs
15 May 2017
With Labor implacably opposed, the Greens must play a positive role in the Senate
National Affairs
12 May 2017
After a forty-year detour, are we heading towards a plan envisaged in 1973?
National Affairs
4 May 2017
A successful Gonski version 2 is essential – but far from sufficient – for genuine school reform
National Affairs
15 March 2017
New PISA results confirm that the social makeup of schools affects the performance of individual students
Essays & Reportage
16 February 2017
Australia urgently needs a new school funding structure, says one of the authors of the Gonski report, and it’s not the one Labor, the Coalition or their critics have in mind
Essays & Reportage
1 February 2017
Schools in Australia and New Zealand set off in opposite directions in the 1970s. Tom Greenwell looks at where they have ended up
National Affairs
28 September 2016
Federal minister Simon Birmingham has fired the first shots in the latest battle of the school funding wars. Here’s our short guide to the terrain
Essays & Reportage
21 September 2016
With education ministers meeting this week to discuss school funding, a close look at the figures reveals large differences between states and sectors
Essays & Reportage
6 September 2016
Governments began watering down Gonski’s school-funding recommendations right from the start, says panel member Ken Boston. But New South Wales shows how it could have been
National Affairs
5 August 2016
With more than 800,000 temporary migrants in Australia, the assumption that everyone who lives here is a permanent resident or a citizen has created dangerous blind spots, writes…
From the archive
28 July 2016
We’re still living with the legacy of Labor’s decision to support public funding of non-government schools
National Affairs
2 June 2016
It’s all there in the latest My School data, write Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd. The downside costs of our present school-funding system are high and rising
Books & Arts
6 October 2015
Music | Take singing seriously and you're on your way to solving the problem of music education, writes Andrew Ford
National Affairs
24 September 2015
Don’t be surprised if the Coalition embraces an updated Gonski plan for school funding, writes Dean Ashenden
National Affairs
24 July 2015
Australia’s school funding system keeps shifting resources towards non-government schools, write Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd. And the argument that…
Essays & Reportage
24 June 2015
Dean Ashenden takes on the sixties, GERM, and the world’s best-known educational revolutionary
National Affairs
22 February 2015
Christopher Pyne’s teacher education review wants serious reform, but it may serve to protect the monopoly that produced the problems, writes Dean Ashenden
Books & Arts
12 February 2015
Books | An American polemic about Chinese schools and OECD league tables exposes problems closer to home, argues Dean Ashenden
Books & Arts
4 December 2014
What should we learn from US experiments, asks Dean Ashenden