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National Affairs Dean Ashenden 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 Tim Colebatch 20 April 2018 Buried in a Treasury report is the data that shows where most of the jobs are going National Affairs Chris Bonnor 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 Chris Bonnor 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 Tom Greenwell 7 March 2018 The former NSW education minister says Australia has a cultural problem when it comes to schooling
National Affairs Dean Ashenden 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 John Quiggin 22 February 2018 A failed experiment in market-led education needs to be buried once and for all National Affairs Chris Bonnor 19 February 2018 Rising averages mask deepening inequalities in Indigenous education Books & Arts Dean Ashenden 24 January 2018 Books | A senior vice-chancellor argues for big changes in tertiary education — but not in universities National Affairs Bill Hannan 11 January 2018 Before he joined the Age, Ron Tandberg played a key role in Victorian teachers’ campaign for professional recognition
National Affairs Dean Ashenden 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 Chris Bonnor 12 October 2017 Gonski 2.0 is a chance to influence school policy for the better, but the window closes soon Essays & Reportage Tom Greenwell 28 September 2017 Could a new model of online learning break down the growing divide between Australian schools? Essays & Reportage John Fitzgerald 21 September 2017 Australian universities need to guard against the possibility that collaborations with their Chinese peers could undermine free enquiry National Affairs Chris Bonnor 1 July 2017 A tribute to the influential educationalist and Inside Story contributor Bernie Shepherd
National Affairs Tom Greenwell 15 May 2017 With Labor implacably opposed, the Greens must play a positive role in the Senate
National Affairs Dean Ashenden 12 May 2017 After a forty-year detour, are we heading towards a plan envisaged in 1973? National Affairs Tim Colebatch 10 May 2017 The threat from Tony Abbott is no longer taken seriously, and the budget is all the better as a result  National Affairs Dean Ashenden 4 May 2017 A successful Gonski version 2 is essential – but far from sufficient – for genuine school reform National Affairs Henry Sherrell 27 April 2017 The sting in the tail of the new citizenship rules is a wholly unrealistic English-language hurdle
National Affairs Tom Greenwell 15 March 2017 New PISA results confirm that the social makeup of schools affects the performance of individual students
National Affairs John Quiggin 27 February 2017 Critics of extended formal education misunderstand the demands of the modern workplace Essays & Reportage Ken Boston 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 Tom Greenwell 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 Essays & Reportage John Edwards 5 December 2016 Reality fails to align with theory in a new conservative analysis of what makes Australia exceptional
National Affairs Dean Ashenden 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 Chris Bonnor & Bernie Shepherd 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 Ken Boston 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 Essays & Reportage Dean Ashenden 28 July 2016 We’re still living with the legacy of Labor’s decision to support public funding of non-government schools National Affairs Chris Bonnor & Bernie Shepherd 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