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Education news

• Australian Education Reporter
  
• Australian Policy Online
  
• Australian Teacher
  
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• Chalkbeat (US)
  
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• Education Today
  
• Education Week (US)
  
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• Schools Week (UK)
  
• Sydney Morning Herald
  
• The Age
  
• The Australian
  
• The Educator
  
• The Telegraph (UK)
  
• This Week in Education (US)
  
• Times Education Supplement (UK)
  

Education blogs

• Answer Sheet (US)
  
• Bridging Differences (US)
  
• Change the Stakes (US)
  
• Cloaking Inequity (US)
  
• Diane Ravitch (US)
  
• Education Today (OECD)
  
• EduResearch Matters
  
• Engaging Parents in School (US)
  
• Hack Education - Education technology (US)
  
• Institute of Education London (UK)
  
• Larry Cuban on School Reform & Classroom Practice (US)
  
• Leading and Learning (NZ)
  
• Online Opinion
  
• Opt Out of School Testing (US)
  
• Pasi Sahlberg (Fin)
  
• Philip Roberts - Valuing rural people, places and communities
  
• Public School Shakedown (US)
  
• Reclaiming Schools (UK)
  
• Save Our Schools (NZ)
  
• Save Our Schools March (US)
  
• Schooling in the Ownership Society (US)
  
• Schools Matter (US)
  
• Shanker blog (US)
  
• Time Out From Testing (US)
  
• Treehorn Express
  
• VAMboozled (US)
  

Education information

• Aussie Educator
  
• Breaking Out
  
• Business Managed Education
  
• Dictionary of Educational History in Australia and New Zealand
  
• Family, School & Community Partnerships Bureau
  
• Girls Uniform Agenda
  
• Gonski Review of School Funding Report and Other Documents
  
• Literacy Educators Coalition
  
• National Education Policy Centre (US)
  
• OECD Education
  
• Privatisation in Education Research Initiative
  

Public education

• ACT P&C Council
  
• Australian Council of State School Organisations
  
• Australian Education Union
  
• Broader Bolder Approach to Education (US)
  
• Campaign for Educational Equity (US)
  
• Campaign for State Education (UK)
  
• Citizens for Public Schools (US)
  
• Education in Crisis
  
• Education International
  
• Local Schools Network (UK)
  
• Network for Public Education (US)
  
• Our Children, Our Schools
  
• People for Education (Can)
  
• Public Education Foundation
  
• Public Education Group
  
• Quality Public Education Coalition (NZ)
  
• Reclaiming Schools (UK)
  

Policy Briefs

• ACT Private Schools Have the Mother of All Special Deals
  
• ACT Private Schools' Bid for a Huge Funding Increase Should be Rejected
  
• Australia's Unfair School Funding System Must be Overhauled
  
• Birmingham is Wrong Again on School Funding and Outcomes
  
• Birmingham's Unscrupulous Duplicities on School Funding
  
• Downsides to East Asian Education Success
  
• Gonski 2.0 is a 40% Gonski
  
• Gonski 2.0 Is a Fraud
  
• Gonski 2.0 Provides Even More Over-Funding of Private Schools
  
• Government Funding Increases Continue to Favour Private Schools
  
• Government Has A Massive Potential Revenue Pool to Fund Gonski
  
• Govt. Failure to Ensure Private School Systems Distribute Funding According to Need Will Continue Under Gonski 2.0
  
• Higher Funding Loadings are Needed for Schools With Greater Concentrations of Disadvantaged Students
  
• Issues in Using Enrolment Data to Measure the Socio-Economic Status of Schools
  
• More School Funding Cuts by Stealth
  
• New National Goals for Education
  
• New School Funding Model Should Include Big Loadings for Disadvantaged Students
  
• P-TECH Schools are Unproven and Threaten Public Education
  
• Private Schools Do Not Have An Entitlement to Taxpayer Funding
  
• Private Schools Make a Brazen Grab for More Resources
  
• Public Education Should be Free
  
• Reports Concede the Lack of Evidence for School Autonomy
  
• Rorting and Cheating is now the Rule with NAPLAN
  
• School Funding and Equity in the ACT
  
• School Money Wars
  
• Social Segregation in Australian Schools is Amongst the Highest in the World
  
• The Coalition Has Sabotaged Gonski
  
• The Economic Case for Gonski
  
• Top Public Service Mandarin Badly Bungled School Funding Figures
  
• Victorian Catholic Education Commission Favours High SES Schools in Funding Allocations
  
• What is Equity In Education?
  

Research

• More Compelling Evidence That Increased Funding Improves Student Outcomes
  
• More Private Schools Will Be Over-Funded Under Gonski 2.0
  
• Private Schools are Over-funded by $4-6 Billion a Year
  
• What’s Behind Australia’s Tottering PISA Results
  
• Resource Gaps Between Advantaged & Disadvantaged Schools Among the Largest in the World
  
• Funding Increases for Victorian Elite Private Schools 2009-2014
  
• NAPLAN Report Shows Little Progress in Reducing Inequity in Education
  
• Money Can’t Buy You Love, But Can It Buy You a Better Education?
  
• Increasing Inequity in School Funding 2009-2013
  
• Australia Has High Quality But Mixed School Outcomes
  
• A Review of Academic Studies of Public and Private School Outcomes in Australia
  
• Public Schools Do as Well as Private Schools
  
• Inequity in Education Outcomes and Funding
  
• The Case for Gonski Plus Funding Loadings for Low SES Students
  
• Money Matters in Education
  
• Pyne's School Autonomy Myth
  
• NAPLAN Results Show Australia Has a Major Equity Problem in Education
  
• Australia's PISA 2012 Results
  
• Private Schools Are No Better Than Public Schools
  
• Big Increase in Students Withdrawn from NAPLAN Tests
  
• Declining Standards and Inequity in ACT Education
  
• Higher SES Private Schools to Win More From Labor
  
• School Autonomy is Not the Success Claimed
  
• Catholic Education Authorities Mislead on Over-Funding
  
• Charter Schools are not a Good Advertisement for School Autonomy
  
• From Opportunity to Outcomes - The Changing Role of Public in Australia and National Funding Arrangements
  
• Voucher Models Will be a Funding Bonanza for Private Schools
  
• School Enrolment Shares by Sector in the ACT - Barbara Preston
  
• Small Schools and Education Outcomes
  
• Increases in Fees and Government Funding for Elite Private Schools 2001-2011
  
• PISA 2009 Results at a Glance
  
• Closing the Gaps
  
• Teacher Bonuses and Student Achievement
  
• Published School Results and League Tables are Misleading and Unreliable
  
• Publication of School Results and League Tables Harm Education
  
• Reporting School Results and Student Achievement
  
• Government Funding for Elite Private Schools: An Upper Class Welfare Policy
  
• Like School Comparisons Do Not Measure Up
  
• Local Area School Comparisons are 'Simplistic' and Unfair League Tables
  
• The Case Against School League Tables
  
• The Free Market and the Social Divide in Education
  
• Naively Stomping Around in an Uninformed Epistemopathological Fog - The Case for Reporting Statistical Error on School Results
  
• New York is Not Working
  
• School Outcomes in the ACT - 2008
  
• Choice or Equity in Education?
  
• SES Overfunding Study
  
• A High Quality, Low Equity and Socially Segregated School System
  
• Howard Government School Education Policy
  
• The Interaction of School Size and Socio-Economic Status on Student Performance
  
• Economics of Towards 2020: Renewing our Schools
  

Speeches

• The ACT Education System Can Do Better
  
• Can We Afford Gonski?
  
• Is the ACT School System Underperforming?
  
• Equity or Privilege in Education
  
• The Gillard Funding Plan is a Watershed but is Not the Full Gonski
  
• School Autonomy, the Education Cost Disease and Funding Cuts
  
• Beyond Gonksi: The Fight for Equity in Education
  
• The State of ACT Education
  
• Closing the Achievement Gaps in Australian Schools
  
• Looking Back at School Closure Issues in the ACT
  
• League Tables at Politics at the Pub
  

Submissions

• A Vision for 2020
  
• ACT Government Abandons Equity in Education
  
• ACT Legislative Assembly Inquiry on School Closures
  
• ACT Legislative Assembly Inquiry on the Achievement Gap
  
• ACT School Closures
  
• Amendments to the Australian Education Bill 2012
  
• Applications for New Private Schools in the ACT
  
• Funding for Students with Disabilities in NSW Private Schools
  
• Gonski 2.0 Abandons Public Schools and Increases Over-Funding of Private Schools
  
• Gonski Review of School Funding
  
• Gonski Review Research Reports
  
• NSW Legislative Council Inquiry into the Closure of Public Schools in New South Wales
  
• Private School Funding is Corrupted by Special Deals
  
• Proposed Re-location of Islamic School
  
• Response by Ken Boston to Criticisms of the Gonksi Funding Plan
  
• Review of the Registration Process for New ACT Private Schools
  
• Senate Education Committee Inquiry on Teaching and Learning - School Autonomy
  
• Senate Education Committee Inquiry on Gonksi 2.0
  
• Senate Education Committee Inquiry on NAPLAN and My School - Conclusions and Recommendations
  
• Social Equity in Education as a National Goal
  
• Supplementary Submission on the Draft National Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians