Essays & Reportage
25 March 2024
A different kind of school reform is needed — reform of governance, the sector system and the daily work of students and teachers
Books & Arts
20 December 2023
Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder?
National Affairs
18 August 2023
Successive reviews of school education have promised a brighter future, but how many of them have gone back to see what went wrong last time?
Books & Arts
2 June 2023
An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it
National Affairs
19 April 2023
Parental choice or equitable access? There’s a way of reconciling the two
National Affairs
7 February 2023
The rising number of selective government schools is harming other students. But could those schools become part of a better solution?
Essays & Reportage
19 October 2022
Three new Productivity Commission reports highlight big problems in schooling and school reform — and in the commission’s own thinking
Books & Arts
27 September 2022
Does sport have anything to teach Australian schools?
Books & Arts
12 September 2022
Katrina Marson brings a dual perspective to her argument in favour of comprehensive sex education
National Affairs
6 September 2022
The education revolution failed — and so did its way of thinking
Books & Arts
12 November 2021
A new analysis of Australian education provides clues as to what’s gone wrong
Books & Arts
7 August 2021
How a distinguished educator fell victim to church politics and personal enmities
From the archive
11 June 2021
Aboriginal people in the town famously visited by the Freedom Ride are taking an innovative approach to their community’s problems
National Affairs
18 February 2021
Good intentions won’t solve the problem of Australia’s increasingly segregated school system
National Affairs
11 August 2020
Adrian Piccoli’s plan to fully fund non-government schools would reduce educational inequality
National Affairs
9 April 2020
A new settlement might just appeal to Coalition supporters, and to Labor’s
Essays & Reportage
9 April 2020
The success of Canada’s education system can help us rethink our own
Summer season
16 March 2020
No longer can non-government schools be said to be saving taxpayer dollars
From the archive
24 January 2020
The decades-long expansion of public funding to private schools has done the opposite of what its proponents claim
Books & Arts
12 December 2019
Books | Jean Blackburn played a central role in a wave of educational reform
Essays & Reportage
9 December 2019
Only fifteen minutes from Parliament House, four Canberra schools reveal the growing segregation in Australian education — and how government policy is at its heart
Books & Arts
3 December 2019
Another bad PISA report suggests that Australia has not learned the basic lesson: school reform won’t work in the absence of major structural change
National Affairs
1 October 2019
Uncertain goals and doubts about effectiveness have prompted a major reappraisal
National Affairs
25 September 2019
Myths about teachers’ pay are derailing the Australian debate
National Affairs
1 February 2019
Focusing on local schools is the first step to restoring equity in education
Essays & Reportage
17 January 2019
Gonski called time on Australia’s “industrial” model of “mass education.” But does the diagnosis — and the prescription — reflect classroom reality?
National Affairs
11 December 2018
An outback town’s gamble on cutting Indigenous crime is paying remarkable dividends
Essays & Reportage
18 September 2018
An outback town finds a way to cut Indigenous crime and imprisonment where governments have failed
Books & Arts
16 August 2018
Books | As Gabbie Stroud’s memoir shows, reformers will get nowhere if they don’t take teachers with them
National Affairs
28 June 2018
The royal commission has shown how institutions can rebuild their relationships with the children in their care