Australia has a wide gap in educational outcomes between children in poverty and their better-off peers. A new study indicates why reducing child poverty is the best way to lift our educational game.
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Improving initial teacher education is a long-term strategy. It won’t achieve the education minister’s goal of getting Australia to the top-performing nations in maths and literacy by 2030.
One recommendation to fix inequity in Australia is for the government to fund non-government schools to the same degree as government schools, while banning them from charging fees.
NAPLAN scores are used to gauge the quality of schools. But the overemphasis on only literacy and numeracy scores stands in the way of providing a more holistic education.
Although fewer Australian teens planned on going to university or TAFE than 15 years ago, figures were still higher than the OECD average.
Economics isn’t just about money – it offers ways to tackle many of our problems. But economists lack diversity, and that limits how they see the world and the solutions they offer.
A new analysis shows how family background influences who grows up to invent. The key to turning things around? Expose kids to more inventors.
Students in the same grade in the same school receive a very different education based on the socioeconomic status of their parents.
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Professor of Social Impact, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, College of Business, Government & Law, Flinders University
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Laureate Professor of Education, Director Teachers and Teaching Research Centre, University of Newcastle
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Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research
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Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
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Senior Research Associate, Michigan State University
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PhD Candidate, Economics, Harvard University
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Professor of Economics, Stanford University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University
