Schools often manage problem behaviours by enacting exclusionary school discipline policies that remove students via suspension or expulsion. This study characterises exclusionary school discipline practices in a representative, longitudinal, population-based cohort of 71,955 students attending New South Wales public schools in Australia. The findings indicate that suspending and expelling children does not address problem behaviour.

This research report examined whether attending an Australian non-government secondary school gives an advantage in choice of career in later life. The study examined the occupations held in 2021 by the sex of the person and the sector of secondary school (Government run, Catholic, other Independent) attended in 2011.

This report explores and highlights the experiences of children, young people and their families who have been affected by School Disciplinary Absences (SDAs) involving suspension or exclusion from Queensland state schools. It finds that SDAs can be discriminatory with some cohorts of students receiving SDAs at a higher rate than average.

The Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) has been working closely with Australian schools and systems to learn about promising approaches for implementing evidence-based teaching practices in different school contexts. This discussion paper provides detailed insights from the second year of the Learning Partner work.

Teachers’ salaries consistently represent the largest spending item in public primary and secondary educational institutions across OECD countries and are often the subject of debate. This policy brief outlines spending patterns across OECD countries, highlighting the complexity of implementing broad salary reforms. It finds that even modest salary increases for teachers can have a significant...