This report is the result of a study tour to Canada to learn more about possible approaches that have significant potential to enhance educational delivery in Australia. Australia’s schools are among the world's most segregated. The report shows that with the right structures, regulations and funding in place, Australia can build an equal school system.

This publication puts forward a proposal from the Australian Learning Lecture to create a new equitable framework of how to fund and regulate Australian schools.

Based on an analysis of end-of-school measures of student achievement from 1,600 schools in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, this paper concludes that Australia's school system is increasingly separating and dividing students by advantage and achievement.

This discussion paper looks at inequity within selective schools and their impact on other schools. It presents evidence of dramatic, and deepening, educational inequality.

The second Gonski report has been presented to the federal government, and will soon to be made public. Will it back innovative ideas to improve schools — and if it does, will it get the support it needs?