AVID Australia is a school improvement system that supports schools to advance teaching quality and students’ academic and wellbeing outcomes. This report addresses the question 'Is there evidence that AVID schools boost student outcomes?' The report uses data from Australia’s National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) to analyse school impact.

The commentaries highlight Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 NAPLAN results for 2025, nationally and by selected subgroups. Girls continue to outperform boys in literacy and boys continue to outperform girls in numeracy at all year levels. Higher levels of parental education and occupation continue to be associated with higher NAPLAN performance in all domains.

This report outlines sex differences in mathematics outcomes in primary and secondary school education. It looks into spatial competency, non-cognitive contributors and in-class attentive behaviour on these sex differences. The implications and interventions are examined, including Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) policies for the future.

This policy brief outlines the study Unequal from the start: the achievement gap and the early years. The research examined early cognitive and developmental differences among children aged from birth to five years. The findings underscore the need for policy changes to address educational inequity, and to overcome the effects of disadvantage before they become...

This paper estimates the causal effect of parents' right to work from home on children’s educational attainment. The results highlight the large potential benefits of remote work in supporting families and their children's education.