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Our research into disadvantage in education focuses on how disadvantaged schools and students can become high performers.

School equity at expense of excellence, efficiency
Glenn FaheyDecember 6, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Put to the test in terms of the education’s systems ‘3 Es’ — excellence, equity,...

Choice a solution for equality
Glenn FaheyAugust 30, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

With all the talk of the alleged gross educational inequality of late, one would be...

Overcoming the odds in high school
Blaise JosephAugust 2, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Parents often focus more on the choice of a secondary school, but it turns out...

No, school choice does not cause ‘segregation’
Blaise JosephJuly 25, 2019Spectator

The mental gymnastics displayed by some people in order to blame freedom of school choice...

Overcoming the Odds 2: Where are the top-performing disadvantaged secondary schools?
Blaise JosephJuly 23, 2019PP21

Students from disadvantaged social backgrounds perform worse academically on average than more advantaged students. However,...

Overcoming the Odds
Blaise Joseph, Tom Switzer, Victoria Golding, Kevin MackayApril 3, 2019

Groundbreaking CIS research has identified the common policies and practices leading to success in disadvantaged...

Mind the Gap: Understanding the Indigenous education gap and how to close it
Glenn FaheyJune 24, 2021RR41

Indigenous education disadvantage remains among the most pressing and persistent public policy challenges in Australia....

Confronting Indigenous educational disadvantage: A Kimberley perspective
Lorraine HammondMarch 24, 2021AP20

Overcoming Indigenous education disadvantage is possible with the right teaching approaches and school policies. It...

Dollars and Sense: Time for smart reform of Australian school funding
Glenn FaheyDecember 1, 2020RR40

Australia is among the world’s highest-spending countries on schooling. Yet, the educational return on this...

Pain without gain: Why school closures are bad policy
Blaise Joseph, Glenn FaheyMay 24, 2020PP28

The decision by state and territory governments to strongly advise parents to keep their children...

Overcoming the Odds 2: Where are the top-performing disadvantaged secondary schools?
Blaise JosephJuly 23, 2019PP21

Students from disadvantaged social backgrounds perform worse academically on average than more advantaged students. However,...

Overcoming the Odds: A study of Australia’s top-performing disadvantaged schools
Blaise JosephMarch 18, 2019RR39

Students from disadvantaged social backgrounds perform worse on average academically than more advantaged students. This...

In Indigenous communities it is all about the teachers
July 2, 2007Online Opinion

If you have flown with Qantas recently, you may have seen the documentary Bush School...

Setting readers to rights
August 31, 2006The Australian

In 1997, federal, state and territory education ministers agreed that “every child commencing school from...

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Submission to the Parliament of NSW Standing Committee on State Development: Inquiry into economic development in Aboriginal communities
Sara HudsonFebruary 12, 2016CIS Submission

In seeking to improve Indigenous economic development outcomes it is important to recognise that high...

Submission to the Indigenous Sub-committee of the Standing Committee for the Review of Government Services Provision. 2011
Sara HudsonJanuary 31, 2011

Submission to the Indigenous Sub-committee of the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Services...

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