Focusing on progress – not just achievement – and investing in improving teaching practice will help to lift slipping standards in Australian schools.
- School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
What are the key policy challenges facing the new Turnbull government in terms of economic growth and budgets, cities, transport, energy, school education, higher education and health?
Both parties are proposing to spend more on education, yet there is no guarantee that either will lift outcomes substantially.
While schools receive an extra $1.2 billion in funding for 2018-20, reforms for higher education are delayed by a further year.
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.
Inner-city parents in urban redevelopment zones are the most likely to have problems getting their children into a government school.
Expecting the My School website to improve learning outcomes assumes that parents will see a drop in results and move their child to the other school down the road - but markets in education just don’t work like this.
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