The demands of the job mean teachers don’t have enough time to ensure they do the best-quality teaching they can. But our new report has a plan for governments.
- Deputy Program Director, School Education, Grattan Institute
The national average in literacy and numeracy has been unaffected by 2020’s disruptions. But will have to wait until the full NAPLAN data is released to understand the affect on vulnerable students.
New South Wales and Victoria are investing $250 and $337 million respectively for disadvantaged students who fell behind in 2020 to have extra tutors.
The Victorian government’s funding is critical to helping disadvantaged students catch up. But the government needs to take several extra steps to ensure their funding has its desired effect.
The government should have a plan for how to help disadvantaged students catch up from learning lost during the pandemic, and how to better support students with mental health issues.
A Grattan Institute report shows the achievement gap between disadvantaged and advantaged students widens at triple the rate in remote schooling compared to regular class.
The government can invest in a number of catch-up programs, including summer school and small group tuition, to help children who fall behind due to COVID-19.
High performing systems focus on the same things Australian governments do, but they work much more intensively on making these things happen.
Teachers get paid a decent starting salary but they soon fall behind other professionals the longer they stay in the job.
Our top-scoring students aren’t choosing to become teachers, and that has flow-on effects for the students who come after them.
Evidence shows improving teacher selection will improve student results.
School education in Australia is generally good, but it should be better.
The shift in the education debate from “how much” to “how best” is a welcome change, but for students to feel the full benefit the federal government must resist intervening.
The passage of the new schools funding program is a big win for Australian children.
Both parties are proposing to spend more on education, yet there is no guarantee that either will lift outcomes substantially.
The prime minister’s proposal to cease federal funding for public schools is a response to a budgetary problem, not a way to improve educational outcomes.
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