School Education
The School Education Program of Grattan Institute aims to improve school outcomes across sectors, across Australia.
The program will focus on key areas such as the evaluation of school education outcomes to drive school improvements; teacher quality (including teacher recruitment, training, evaluation, and management); and the impact of targeted programs to reduce inequities. The program will evaluate the benefits and costs of education policies and programs.
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Publications and News
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Teacher quality key to better student performance and productivity
Publication | 17 August 2010 | School Education
Better education is the most important single area to get right in public policy. Investing in the quality of teaching will provide greater returns to individuals and the economy than any initiative on the reform agenda today. It also has vital non-economic benefits such as contributing to wellbeing, health, social mobility and reduced crime rates. John Daley and Ben Jensen outline why Australia needs to develop an ambitious evidence-based education reform agenda.
| What Teachers Want: Better Teacher Management
Publication | 24 May 2010 | School Education
Improving the quality of teachers and teaching should be a central goal of education policy. Evaluating the work of teachers and developing their teaching skills is a key part of improving the quality of teaching. However, an OECD survey reveals that teacher evaluation and development in Australia is poor and amongst the worst in the developed world.
| What Teachers Want: Better Teacher Management - A Grattan Report
Event | 25 May 2010 | School Education
Grattan Institute released their second education report on Monday 24 May 2010. Dr Ben Jensen, Program Director School Education presented a seminar about the report's findings.
| Economic Returns to Education
Event | 6 May 2010 | Education
What are the links between education and productivity? With the Australian school education system currently going through a major reform, Grattan Institute hosted a seminar which discussed the relationship between education and economic returns. Will the proposed education reforms make a difference to Australian productivity?
| NAPLAN Tests Help Champion Equality in the Classroom
Publication | 15 April 2010 | School Education
The Australian Education Union needs to rethink its opposition to NAPLAN, the national testing program being introduced by the federal government.The union has confused the value of the tests with the problems that need to be addressed on the 'MySchool' web site.
| Measuring what matters: student progress
Event | 8 February 2010 | School Education
Grattan Institute is released its first public report "Measuring what matters: student progress" on Wednesday 27 January 2010, looking at the issue of measuring school performance. This issue is relevant to the Commonwealth government's launch of the "my school" website of school performance.
| Measuring What Matters: Student Progress
Publication | 27 January 2010 | School Education
In Australia, a large percentage of students only reach minimum standards of literacy and numeracy. These students are spread throughout Australia's school education systems; there are few schools that do not have poor performing students who would benefit from improved education. Despite decades of increasing expenditure, student performance has stagnated. We have a moral imperative to improve the performance of the 30% of year 9 students who have progressed to only the very basic elements of writing literacy.
| Why we need to elevate school reform
Publication | 20 September 2009 | School Education
Long-term thinking in education will add billions to Australian gross domestic product, writes John Daley.
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