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Layoffs and pay freezes next year would hurt in-class instruction and student progress when it's most needed.
Kindergarten enrollment dropped 16% this year, according to an NPR survey of 60 school districts across 20 states.
Canadian governments are failing to treat future citizens fairly by saddling them with huge debt. What policies should Canadian governments enact that offer greater fairness to future generations?
Unfairness alone is upsetting enough to drive people to punish lucky recipients of unfair outcomes.
While the focus has been on containing 'hot spots' of COVID-19 outbreaks, understanding why some areas have few or no cases could point the way to a staged reopening that starts with these areas.
Not everyone has a job they can do from home. Mapping the patterns of occupations across Melbourne's suburbs against COVID-19 cases strongly suggests why some parts of the city are more vulnerable.
If Ontario's de-streaming of high schools isn't accompanied with other efforts to address cultural norms and values, streaming in many other forms and guises will continue.
The coronavirus feeds off of social and environmental injustice, exacerbating the wounds, scars and illnesses that existed prior to the pandemic. That's why returning to 'normal' is not an option.
These are difficult and dire times, but holding on to the myth of childhood innocence won't make this crisis any easier.
Frustration at intergenerational inequity captures the views of many contemporary education worker activists and environmentalists alike.
School fundraising, while often heralded for increasing parent engagement and providing much-needed school resources, may come at the expense of creating of equitable and inclusive public schools.
Around half of homes in three major Australian cities only have access to very old technology: hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC). For them, access to the NBN fibre network remains only a fairy tale.
Government agencies spend millions of dollars yearly to buy and demolish homes sited in floodplains. But the program is slow, cumbersome and doesn't always help those who need it most.
Tasmania's digital inclusion increased dramatically and more than the national average from 2017 to 2018. This change is underpinned by a doubling of access to NBN in Tasmania in that period.
From the 20th-century process of policy trial and error, the nations that married the strengths of markets and government came out ahead.
The patterns of Airbnb listings in Australia's biggest cities suggest impacts on rental housing are likely to be biggest in high-end areas that appeal to tourists. Low-income areas are less affected.
Mass incarceration harms the health of prisoners, their families and the people who work in detention centers.
In cities dominated by globalised market forces, how can we achieve social equity and justice? For any sharing economy idea, we need to ask what will it do to fix the big problems confronting us all.
The NBN has to be equitable to be a truly nation-building platform. As long as it is failing some, it is failing us all in Australia.
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Associate Professor in Urbanism and Telecommunication Planning, Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellow, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate in Public Policy, University of Cambridge
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
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Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Deputy Director (Acting) Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
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Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Design and Computation, University of Sydney
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Professor of Media and Communications; Director, Social Change Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada
