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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
Media moralising perpetuates school division
Reporting the MySchool NAPLAN test results reveals the media’s obsession with highlighting differences between public and independent schools. Read More...TOP 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. Read More...TOP STORY
MySchool – an overview
We summarise some overarching conclusions following the launch of the government’s MySchool website. Read More...TOP STORY
Telling how it is
Bedevilling struggling teachers fails to address the para-educational difficulties facing many school students. Such challenges can never be adequately addressed in government online school and student evaluations. Read More...TOP STORY
Defending facts, exploding myths
With supposed ‘experts’ spruiking the respective values of education no wonder the Australian public is receiving mixed messages concerning education outcomes. Read More...TOP STORY
Determining school disadvantage – experts at work
Education Minister Gillard provides hazy explanations regarding certain MySchool website criteria. Is she failing to reveal details of contentious data because it provides ammunition to justify a major resourcing program towards Australian schools that involves future quadrennial funding decisions? 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...TOP STORY
Concerned about recurrent funding?
If independent educationalists believe the Australian Education Union is not preparing a massive campaign to discredit SES recurrent funding and reduce funds to private schools digest the following comments from the AEU’s federal president. Read More...TOP STORY
Unions up the ante on league tables
League table debate will heighten divisions in school reform procedures during 2010. Read More...TOP STORY
Holding the line. Well maybe?
While the Education Minister followed the government line on recurrent funding to non-government schools what she did not say is perhaps more significant than what she said. Read More...TOP STORY
The first recurrent funding shot
AEU commissions report that continues to criticise the level of recurrent funding to non-government schools. Expect more of the same during 2010. Read More...TOP STORY
Operating issues in 2010 – the communication challenge
Independent school associations and their supporters need to re-assess their media and communications strategy to provide consistent and comprehensive comment on education issues. Read More...TOP STORY
Operating issues in 2010 – partnering possibilities
School partnering can be increasingly fostered in a social context that seeks greater integration and more widespread affiliation. A deeper quality of parental association can build a stronger school climate for students, teachers and families. Read More...TOP STORY
Operating issues in 2010 – school’s recurrent funding
The outcome of recurrent funding discussions in 2010 will have significant, long lasting repercussions on all independent school’s financial viability. Read More...TOP STORY
Operating issues in 2010 – improving teaching professionalism
Developing teacher quality will remain a fundamental issue for educational improvement during 2010 and beyond. Read More...TOP STORY
Operating issues in 2010 – national curriculum
As details of the proposed national schooling curriculum are released during 2010 advocates and critics of such schooling strategies will compete for media space and wider community hearing. Read More...TOP STORY
Operating issues in 2010 – tuition fee affordability
The issue of rising school fees – and hence the affordability of independent schooling to many families – remains a critical concern for the majority of non-government schools. Read More...TOP STORY
Operating issues in 2010 – community relations
Schools’ relationships with their immediate community will be a defining measure of inclusiveness of independent education in 2010 and beyond. Read More...TOP STORY
Education issues in 2010
Independent schools face certain critical challenges over the next year. We identify some broad background circumstances in which those challenges will be framed. Read More...LATEST NEWS
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