• Education

Quality school education is vital for individual potential and a healthy society. All children should have access to an education that is responsive to their needs as well as upholding high academic standards. CIS’s research focus is on policies that improve the quality of teaching and student outcomes.

Why Jaydon can’t read
Jennifer Buckingham OAMOctober 4, 2013The Australian

In the most recent international assessment of primary school literacy achievement – the Progress in...

The Right to the Good Life: Improving Educational Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
Marcia LangtonOctober 1, 2013OP133

Education is a key ideological battleground in debates about how to address Indigenous disadvantage. Yet,...

Bad teaching kills reading skills
Jennifer Buckingham OAMSeptember 30, 2013The Australian

IN his 1955 book Why Johnny Can't Read, Rudolph Flesch explained that quality of instruction...

Voluntary student unionism
Andrew BakerSeptember 27, 2013

Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) was briefly back on the agenda this week, before the Prime...

Coalition education policy takes an epicurean turn
Benjamin HerscovitchSeptember 13, 2013

Epicurus, the great ancient Greek philosopher, had a pragmatic attitude towards his own vocation. One...

Why Jaydon can’t read: The triumph of Ideology over evidence in teaching reading
Jennifer Buckingham OAMSeptember 9, 2013Policy

The current entrenched rate of illiteracy among Australian children is unnecessary and avoidable, write Jennifer...

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