School choice
Policy report
What do parents want from schools?
This paper provides an insight into parental perspectives of the current state of school choice and resourcing, based on a survey of Australian parents that reveals the areas of importance to them—and how they and their children could be better served by the education system.
Discussion paper
Separating scholars: how Australia abandons its struggling 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.
Discussion paper
Institutionalised separation: the impact of selective schools
This discussion paper looks at inequity within selective schools and their impact on other schools. It presents evidence of dramatic, and deepening, educational inequality.
Article
Science, policy and Partnership Schools
Is New Zealand’s Partnership School Kura Hourua scheme really a policy ‘shambles’?
Article
Australian schools: the view from Mars
The Federal Government's competition review is disastrously wrong about education THE SUPPORT for more competition in schooling expressed this week by the Harper review of competition policy is so facile, and cast at such a high level of abstraction and in tones of faux reasonableness, that it can only be regarded as mischievous. Schooling makes...