Over a one-week period each school year, over a million Australian students in Years 3 to 9 complete between two to three hours of tests. The first release of information occurs almost five months later based on how many test ...

In October last year, a survey of almost 2000 parents overwhelmingly called for information about individual schools to be made available to the public. As part of the education revolution, the government is committed to a new era of transparency ...

With recent policy shifts towards social inclusion, school suspension and other exclusionary practices are outdated and seen as potentially harmful. Despite this, they are still common. In 2007, 12 per cent of Year 10 Victorian students aged 15 to 16 ...

Areas of public policy tend to have their periods of dynamism and stability. Institutional obsolescence, internal and external shock, and political factors can all lead to policy turbulence and change. The change can ameliorate these pressures and allow relative stability ...

Education stakeholder groups periodically call for more special education funding by citing large increases in the number of “integrated” students against much slower rises in support allocations. The research with Dr Naomi Sweller, reported in last month’s issue of Education ...

Professor Jack Keating presents a visionary national reform agenda for Australian schooling. It is time for the community to adopt the language of radical dissent. The community must agitate for significant, systematic and sustained change. This is necessary if Australia ...

A desire to share the theory behind Montessori schooling with fellow teachers and to promote the unique education method is what drove Steven Arnold to undertake postgraduate study. Since January, Arnold has been juggling a PhD at the University of ...

Jane Caro’s article (ER, February 2009) on the downside of gifted and talented or selective schooling, as evidenced by her daughter’s experiences, describes a scenario with which many parents of kids identified as G&T would be familiar. After the advantages ...

When I was given the honour of being named Australian of the Year for 2009, I said I wanted to talk about the protection of the rights and human dignity of all Australians. I said that sometimes we don’t speak ...

Cathy Wever reports. Successful organisations have capable, confident, skilled leaders. Schools are no exception. To effectively run a school the person on the ground needs the ability to make a whole range of decisions. In other words, they need autonomy ...