Fighting for Equity in Education

Unlocking the Gates of School Segregation

The children’s charity, Bernado’s, says that a complex and unfair school admissions system and school league tables are entrenching social segregation and education disadvantage in English schools. >> Read on...

Reducing the Achievement Gap Between Rich and Poor is a National Priority

The massive achievement gap between rich and poor is the biggest challenge facing Australian education today. A huge funding effort is needed to transform our high quality, low equity education system into a high quality, high equity system. >> Read on...

New Evidence of Massive Achievement Gaps Between Rich and Poor in Australia

New studies show massive achievement gaps between rich and poor students in Australia. Students from low income families enrolled in low socio-economic status schools are nearly four years behind students from high income families in high socio-economic status schools in reading, mathematics and science. >> Read on...

Social Segregation in Schools Blights Children and Society

Social segregation between schools is increasing in Australia. Its effect will be to reduce the results of students from disadvantaged families, increase the achievement gap between students from rich and poor families and undermine the potential for different social groups in Australia to learn, work and live together with tolerance and mutual understanding. >> Read on...

Blame for School Achievement Gap Misplaced

A new report published in the US this week highlights a major problem that will come to the fore in Australia with the publication of school league tables >> Read on...

Large Achievement Gaps Revealed in Victorian Schools

A new report by the Victorian Auditor-General on literacy and numeracy achievement in Victorian government schools has cast more light on the achievement gaps between students. >> Read on...

Massive Achievement Gaps Revealed

The recent report of the NSW Auditor-General on improving literacy and numeracy in NSW government schools reveals massive achievement gaps between students from rich and poor families and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. >> Read on...

A High Quality, Low Equity and Socially Segregated School System

Trevor Cobbold, spokesman for Save Our Schools, recently delivered an address to a forum on the future of public education in the ACT sponsored the ACT Public Education Alliance. >> Read on...

Addressing the Social Divide in Education

A new report just published by the UK charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has highlighted need to address the educational divide. >> Read on...