Australia should trial multi-school organisations to give schools a better chance of improving student performance, according to this Grattan Institute report.

Despite billions of additional experts and concerted efforts at reforming several pillars of the Australian education ecosystem, students’ results continue to plateau. The author of this report argues that Australian education needs to position the science of learning as the foundation for policy and practice.

Australia does not have a national inclusive education policy and responsibilities for developing and enacting education policies occur within the complex system of federal, state, and territory governments. This policy review identifies strengths, gaps and needs to enhance autistic students' opportunities and outcomes in the education system. It makes 20 recommendations for policy, research and...

This final report of the committee’s inquiry considers the release of the OECD’s latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, and the first tranche of resources from the Australian Education Research Organisation’s 'Engaged Classrooms Through Effective Classroom Management' project.

The research outlined in this report suggest that the better performance achieved by private schools over public ones is not necessarily linked to a better quality of education in private schools, but rather to an over-representation of privileged groups, and often a school climate more conducive to learning.