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A tale of two sectors
The ‘education revolution’ should not perpetuate societal differences between school sectors. Read More...TOP STORY
US moves towards national curriculum
US educators propose cross-state curriculum standardisation for English and maths in a broadly similar approach to the Rudd Government’s recently announced ACARA national curriculum proposals. Read More...TOP STORY
The mire of internationalism
The Baird Report reveals serious and troubling arrangements for international students undertaking post-school study in Australia. Read More...TOP STORY
Teaching the teacher
Allocating BER funding to schools pre-empts a long evaluative process to assess teaching quality and teacher professionalism in Australia. Notwithstanding its massive funding injection US education researchers have not yet found the ‘silver bullet’ to deliver improved teaching practices and heighten classroom professionalism. Read More...TOP STORY
An education revolution – which way education reform?
Substantive debate on national curriculum issues runs the risk of being lost in the minutia of subject detail and self interest power plays between education stakeholders. The biggest education 'player' - the federal government - needs to rise above such parochialism. Read More...TOP STORY
A fixation with comparisons
Expanding government education websites may provide solid growth for IT personnel but offers limited evidence that the My website concept will actually improve education and learning quality. Read More...TOP STORY
Pressed into action
A glowing ministerial statement raises more issues than it answers following Julia Gillard’s address to the National Press Club. Read More...TOP STORY
Mixed messages in philanthropy
Corporations can underpin philanthropy as can a wider spread of donor support across all perceived wealth sectors. Read More...TOP STORY
Jesus – a Xavier alum?
Social commentator highlights attitudinal anomalies by the independent school sector towards national and international equity issues. Do such attitudes reveal a paucity of application among supposed church-based schools that claim strong Christian values? Read More...TOP STORY
Raising competencies with written literacy
Bland NAPLAN test results do not reveal the teaching intricacies associated with written English competencies nor the professional skills of teachers to improve their own legitimacy to assess and raise writing standards. Read More...TOP STORY
Bats in the belfry or political double speak?
The Education Minister either refuses – or is incapable – of answering specific issues for schools, a philosophy central to the Government’s desire to assist and respond to individual school need. Read More...TOP STORY
Is the public losing interest in education reform?
Limited public interest in funding allocations may reveal community disenchantment with Rudd Government education reforms that include the MySchool website. Read More...TOP STORY
Questions continue … answers not so forthcoming
Funding issues continue to be raised regarding the Government’s BER allocation program. The government continues to effectively marginalise – or ignore - such criticism. Read More...TOP STORY
Accountability, but who’s counting?
Government accountability standards for school and teacher performance is at odds with the government’s own performance in environment and education infrastructure management and program implementation. Read More...TOP STORY
Cyber-safety initiative welcome
The independent education sector is participating in a government-backed cyber-safety study. Hopefully its results can be incorporated into national education strategies and parenting support programs. Read More...TOP STORY
NAPLAN ranking – an educationalist comments
Dr John Collier highlights inadequacies in publishing MySchool’s NAPLAN results. Rather than broadening school and student assessment processes the data actually prescripts evaluation regarding educational change. Read More...TOP STORY
Bright lights – another Halley’s Comet
Commentators – and politicians – grasp for the media spotlight following the MySchool launch. Predictably the critics of independent schooling use the website’s details to promote their own dogmatic conclusions. Read More...TOP STORY
Revealing reasons for MySchool
School’s recurrent funding will remain a contentious by-product of the government’s MySchool website. Read More...TOP STORY
Assessing MySchool
The government’s Myschool website may provide a plethora of statistical information but will all this data actually improve overall student learning? We believe not. Read More...LATEST NEWS
Media moralising perpetuates school division
Reporting the MySchool NAPLAN test results reveals the media’s obsession with highlighting differences between public and independent schools. Register to read full story...In league with the media
Certain newspapers continue comparing government and non-government school NAPLAN results from the MySchool website, a divisive and potentially inaccurate measure of overall school performance. Register to read full story...MySchool – an overview
We summarise some overarching conclusions following the launch of the government’s MySchool website. Register to read full story...Member Login
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