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Investing Additional Resources in Schools ServingLow-Income Students
October 28, 2024
Money matters in education, especially for students from families that are struggling financially.
Increasing school funding not only leads to improved school completion rates and higher
achievement in low-income school districts,but over the long-term it can increase educational
attainment, wages, and family incomes for children from low-income families.
Australia fares poorly in OECD’s Education at a Glance report
September 28, 2024
The latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s ‘Education at a Glance’ report reveals that Australia significantly underperforms against most OECD countries when it comes to investing in public schools.
Read MoreAustralian Learning Lecture has called on the Commonwealth Government and all political parties to commit to an independent expert review into existing policy settings and new policy levers to increase socio economic diversity in schools and lift student outcomes, presented in Improving Outcomes for All.
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A range of reports from a variety of standpoints have recently been published about school funding. These include reports from the Australian Education Union, Independent Schools Australia and Catholic Schools NSW. The reports have been critiqued by Chris Bonnor, co-author of Choice and fairness: A common framework for Australian schools.
The federal government released details of the new schools funding agreement at the end of July, including an extra $16 billion for Australian schools. The agreement is due to replace current arrangements from January 1, 2025. There has already been a 12-month extension to the current agreement (which was due to expire at the end of 2023).
Read More It is pleasing to see an increasing number of research and media publications focusing on equity in education as well as people questioning the Australia’s school funding system.
Both raise the question, are we any closer to starting a much-needed public conversation on school reform? If we are, and if funding is seen as a pre-condition for equity, what should come next? What structural and regulatory changes in the total ...
The Canadian team includes government ministers, educators, school board members and trade unionists. In Ontario, the team is led by Ralph Cuthbertson, a former Superintendent of Education with the Toronto District School Board.
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The Australian team to Canada includes Chris Bonnor is a former secondary school principal, past head of NSW Principals’ Council and an author, Andy Mison, President of the Australian Secondary Principals’ Association, Tom Greenwell, teacher and author and Lindsay Luck, a Catholic school principal.
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While marketisation has been promoted as a mechanism for improving educational equity and effectiveness, substantial evidence suggests that it may have the opposite effect.
A recent study by Australian researchers including LEAP participant Michael Sciffer, compared Australia and Canada, two countries with similar demographics and economic contexts but differing levels of education marketisation.
Twelve of Australia’s leading educators and researchers are to tour Canada to learn more about how schools in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia attain equity and achievement.
The tour, supported by Australian Learning Lecture, has been organised by Leading Educators Around the Planet.