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Australian schools are failing
Recover and revitalise education
Glenn FaheyJanuary 29, 2021IDEAS@THECENTRE

As Australia’s 4 million school students and their educators kick off a new school year,...

Complacency on maths just doesn’t add up
Glenn FaheyJanuary 28, 2021Canberra Times

Tolerating low levels of mathematical achievement threatens to leave a generation of Australian children behind...

More than money to move the educational needle
Glenn FaheyDecember 12, 2020CANBERRA TIMES

New CIS research shows that sustained, record increases to school funding are not improving Australia’s...

Roll out the test that stops children failing at the first hurdle
Tom SwitzerDecember 11, 2020SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

  Little is more fundamental to the success of an individual than literacy. If our...

It’s not giving a Gonski but better teachers that improve schools
Glenn FaheyDecember 6, 2020Financial Review

Taxpayer funding for schools has climbed to about $16,000 per student and exceeds $60 billion...

Jen Buckingham Sky News Credlin on phonics
CIS victory on phonics
Tom SwitzerDecember 5, 2020CIS

Sinking scores, poor sentence construction, misspelling words. In recent years, the process of teaching school...

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