Join us on Wednesday, 27 March, as we welcome Sarah Powell to CIS to discuss possible sources for declining proficiency …
Australia is among the world’s highest-spending countries on schooling. Yet, the educational return on this investment for parents, taxpayers, employers, …
Educational freedom and proper use of resources are both crucial in producing the best outcomes for school students. This paper …
The Portfolio Committee on Education in the NSW Legislative Council has set up an inquiry into measurement of outcomes in …
Students from disadvantaged social backgrounds perform worse on average academically than more advantaged students. This study investigated Australia’s top-performing disadvantaged …
The Gonski 2 Review into Australian schools failed to fulfill its terms of reference to examine the evidence regarding the …
The Gonski Report has not been implemented – there is no such thing as ‘Gonski funding.’ The current school funding …
The Human Services Inquiry is ‘examining policy options in the human services sector that incorporate the principles of competition, contestability …
Australia has a relatively large degree of choice between schools, a product of historical private and non-profit sector involvement in …
Government expenditure on schools has more than doubled in real terms in the last 25 years, while student numbers have …
The federal government’s decision this week to withdraw its legislation requiring social media companies to regulate misinformation represents a victory …
Since the US election result confirmed Donald Trump would re-enter the White House in triumph, Australian commentators and politicians have …
The sad thing about this dispiriting election campaign is that it hasn’t clarified America’s problems, but deepened them.
Queensland Labor’s embrace of progressive policies popular with the urban elite meant it had abandoned the regions.
Experts in misinformation will no doubt be closely following the extraordinary claims being thrown around during the US election, for …
The debate around land reform on Indigenous traditional lands has been going on for decades, and has been heated. It’s …
There is no better sign of the loss of faith in democracy than the belief that government must protect people …
It has been 12 months since the Voice Referendum was defeated and you have to wonder what has happened since. …
The Austrian economist and intellectual Friedrich Hayek was a victim of cancel culture long before the term entered the political …
Labor’s obsession with negative gearing and capital gains tax changes has reared its head yet again. The latest version has …