‘Hubs of concentrated advantage’: selective schools need a rethink
Published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 16 July 2018. In the debate about selective schools, personal stories and beliefs can drown out evidence, especially when that evidence challenges the status quo. So we hear plenty...
Educational opportunity in Australia – who succeeds and who misses out?
This critical question about our schools is the title of a new report commissioned by the Mitchell Institute. It is a thorough, timely and outstanding contribution to our understanding of disadvantage in schooling. The...
GetUp! | ‘Every child, every school’, features Pushing our luck authors
GetUp! campaign draws expertise from Pushing our luck education chapter Access online campaign, read Chris’s policy paper and sign the GetUp petition This position paper was commissioned by GetUp, and written by education expert...
Quality education for all: the view from the ground
Chris Bonnor describes how inconsistent obligations condemn one sector to struggle and enable the other to succeed.
Education Topic 1: Responding to parental anxiety
Our education system is no longer based on values, writes Chris Bonnor in the third article in the Education Policy Development Series. Instead we have a system that has developed through inconsistent decisions made...