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Education information

• Aussie Educator
  

Public education

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Policy Briefs

• New National Goals for Education
  

Research

• 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
  
• Research Paper - New York is Not Working
  
• School Outcomes in the ACT - 2008
  
• Choice or equity in Education?
  
• SES Overfunding Study Overview.
  
• SES Over-Funding Review -Detailed Analysis
  
• 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
  
• The Hobbit Effect – Small Schools Work (external site)
  

Speeches

• Looking Back at School Closure Issues in the ACT
  
• League tables at Politics at the Pub
  

Submissions

• Submission to the Legislative Assembly inquiry into school closures
  
• Proposed Re-location of Islamic School
  
• A Vision for 2020
  
• Supplementary Submission on the Draft National Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians
  
• ACT Government abandons equity in education
  
• SOS submission on Towards 2020
  
• Social Equity in Education as a National Goal
  
• SOS Submission to ACT Legislative Assembly inquiry on the Achievement Gap