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July 14, 2022

Don’t expect schools to do all the heavy lifting to close the education divide between the big cities and the rest of Australia

John Halsey, Flinders University

The Australian approach to lifting standards of schooling has a crucial blind spot: the role of the people and communities outside school in supporting students.

It’s been 6 months since the release of the Gonski report, and the 6700 public schools represented by this ‘sea of hands’ now await the government’s response. AAP

August 21, 2012

Gonski review: Experts weigh in on what the government should do

Charis Palmer, The Conversation

Australia doesn’t just need “a Gonski response”, it needs a plan for continuing improvement in our schools, says Prime Minister Julia Gillard. In a speech to the Independent Schools National Forum, Ms…

School funding is under the microscope for the first time in nearly 40 years. torres21

February 20, 2012

Gonski review: experts respond

Joel Windle, Monash University; Ian Hay, University of Tasmania; Jim McMorrow, University of Sydney; John Halsey, Flinders University, and Kanishka Jayasuriya, University of Adelaide

A much-anticipated review of Australian school funding, spearheaded by businessman David Gonski, was handed to the Gillard government today. We asked Australian education experts to respond to the report’s…

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Don’t expect schools to do all the heavy lifting to close the education divide between the big cities and the rest of Australia

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