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Uneven playing field : the state of Australia's schools / Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd.

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Record Number 17900
Author Bonnor, Chris
Title Uneven playing field : the state of Australia's schools / Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shepherd. [ElectronicResource]
Published Centre for Policy Development, 2016.
Collation 87 pages [PDF]
Summary Note "For this report we collate and analyse My School data available from 2009 to 2015 to examine Australian schools diagnostically, offering a health check on the entire education system. The use of My School in relation to individual schools by itself is not without fault – but its huge scan of all schools enables a rigorous assessment of the entire system. We look at the history of the system, its present dysfunction, solutions that have been offered to date as well as a suite of recommendations for improving the system and levelling the playing field. Our combined worst fears have been confirmed by the available evidence. In a nutshell, Australia has created and continues to create an uneven playing field for our children and for our schools. We find that our framework of schools is in poor shape. Our diagnosis reaffirms what the Gonski Review posited so clearly. But that was almost five years ago and the system has staggered on, partly because those who should care either don’t believe the diagnosis or won’t find funding for the solutions. Specifically, we find that the equity of Australia’s schools has deteriorated in recent years. Our school system is straying into a hierarchy of advantage and disadvantage. The students who are able to move to schools perceived to be better are doing so in increasing numbers, which is compounding the struggle of those students left behind at other schools. As this hierarchy forms it is without any across-the-board benefits for overall student achievement. Against all advice, as a country we are spending more on the schools with advantaged students. Yet these advantaged students are not performing much better, and the performance of the other students is deteriorating. The accumulating data increasingly points to the fact that the original diagnosis, the Gonski Review, overwhelmingly got it right." - p. 12.
Subject Education -- Australia -- Finance
Federal aid to education -- Australia
Added Name Shepherd, Bernie
Internet Site http://cpd.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/The-State-of-Australias-Schools.pdf
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