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, …
The decision by state and territory governments to strongly advise parents to keep their children at home and essentially close …
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 …
Early childhood interventions are programs that aim to improve a child’s development trajectory over the longer term. In the context …
Speech given by CIS Policy Analyst Trisha Jha to the NSW Liberal Party’s Rural and Regional Lunch on Saturday March 5, …
In seeking to improve Indigenous economic development outcomes it is important to recognise that high levels of Indigenous disadvantage are …
Charter schools and free schools – publicly-funded, privately-managed schools – have been introduced in several countries around the world as …
This week Victoria finally embraced the evidence on how kids learn to read, and the crucial role of phonics. One …
Parents, teachers and students in regional and remote areas should be concerned that most of the key recommendations of a …
The notion of the ‘fair go’ is meant to be central to Australia’s national ethos. It’s not easy to define, …
A new Productivity Commission report confirms what’s long been known: Australian schools are failing on the twin goals of educational …
It may not shock you to learn that regular school attendance is crucial to students’ learning. What is shocking is …
Little is more fundamental to the success of an individual than literacy. If our children do not develop the …
We have to stop using private schools as a scapegoat for everything wrong with Australian education. It’s recently been argued …
We have to stop using private schools as a scapegoat for everything wrong with Australian education. Former NSW education minister …
The COVID-19 pandemic — and government responses to it — has halted large sections of the economy, resulting in business …
Schools are one of the most complex parts of the policy response to coronavirus. Policymakers seemingly have to navigate the …