Gonski review: time for a new vision for Australian education

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17 February 2012Australia’s educational system must be one of the most over-reviewed in the OECD, states David Zyngier in the Conversation

Hundreds of Select Committees – Federal and State, Upper and Lower House in the past 20 years have reviewed teacher quality and student outcomes. And we still haven’t got it right.

Now we have the Gonski Review into funding arrangements, in which Mr Gonski looks forward to an education system premised on ensuring “educational outcomes are not the result of differences in wealth, income, power or possessions".

 

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