Education policy can’t get off the ground because of a lack of good data.
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Education policy in Australia is being held back by a lack of data.
Schools increasingly use expulsion as a way to tackle bad behaviour.
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School expulsions are on the rise in Australia. But research shows individual punishment as a deterrent rarely works.
Reports often conceal the inflated capital funding that schools receive for things like play areas, swimming pools and gymnasiums.
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The claim that school spending has increased is misleading and simplistic.
Great teachers are those who have an impact on each student.
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Public perception of teachers influences not only those who may be considering entering teaching, but also how those in this profession perceive themselves.
Governments reform agendas determine which aspects of teacher education to improve.
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Despite a steady stream of reviews into teacher education, little action has been taken. It has become a ‘policy problem’. What is the evidence for current policy?
The debate on grammar schools and social mobility goes back decades.
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A new study has looked at what happend when grammar schools were made free to all children in the 1940s.
Has education spending gone up while student achievement has stalled?
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The Productivity Commission has said that education spending has substantially increased over the last decade but student achievement has shown little or no improvement. Is that true?
We need to invest much more into those who teach the teachers.
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Australia needs a new approach to solve the rural staffing churn. The solution might be found in better preparing those who teach the teachers.
Do we need to make teacher education more selective in Australia?
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We need to have fewer teachers, to pay them more on scales differentiated by skill, and to have more restricted entry into teacher education programs.
Rating teachers doesn’t necessarily improve quality.
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There is little evidence that external inspections and evaluation measures produce better teachers.
By investing wisely in the best evidence-based teacher education programs, the government can foster quality teaching without increasing total funding.
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We have an oversupply of teachers, a lack of specialist teachers and an undervalued profession.
John’s the don.
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The Scots thought their education system was world-beating, until the OECD started publishing rankings.
Check your grammar.
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The right is celebrating the potential return of selective schools, but there are major political obstacles to overcome first.
Education policy should focus on making sure that every student makes great progress, rather than accountability for test scores or teacher performance pay.
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Focusing on progress – not just achievement – and investing in improving teaching practice will help to lift slipping standards in Australian schools.
Morgan out – Greening in.
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Advice from five education academics on what the new secretary of state should prioritise.
Grammar schools: moving with the times.
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Are grammar schools a force for good in England’s reformed education system?
Those teachers who upgraded to an early childhood teaching degree were most likely to leave the profession.
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20% of surveyed early education educators said they want to leave their job due to low pay, volume of paperwork and feeling undervalued.
Education groups need to make sure they use data to make useful comparisons that are in no way misleading.
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The way the higher education sector uses data from the OECD is often technically correct, but substantively misleading.
As GDP increases so does spending on education.
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Education does help to grow the economy, but research highlights some severe limitations.
Should the government both manage and regulate school systems in Australia?
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Responsibility for the operation of public schools needs to be separated from the policymaking and regulatory functions and put into a separate authority.