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One to read: 'Want to improve our education system? Stop seeking advice from far-off gurus and encourage expertise in schools' by Glenn Savage in The Conversation..... and here is the link to Glenn's book. The Quest for Revolution in Australian Schooling Policy. 

Great editorial in The Age: 'Religious schools discrimination law update merits bipartisan support', September 19. * ‘Sleight of hand’: Public schools get $3.5b less than original Gonski plan intended', Jordan Baker in the SMH.

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  • Alas nothing to report. A combination of school vacation and COVID has again pushed everything else aside.

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It's January: the awful fires running through the school vacation have seen most other stories take a back seat, but here are a few:

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Again we celebrate the top 20 HSC schools. But top at what? When ranked by ICSEA the order doesn't change much. Schools and teachers matter, and kids deserve credit - but if we want to know about school results check out the kids walking in. ‘School’ results are increasingly created by family background. What stupid country would persist with a system like this

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Edu-comment: The investigation by the ABC takes up where Bernie Shepherd and I left off. Our first report(link is external) on this was over two years ago and since then given oxygen by the Centre for Policy Development. More mainstream media and researchers should be doing this work - but then again, they don't all have the talents of people like Inga Ting !

Edu-comment: The Anglican schools say the discrimination is needed so the schools can maintain their ethos and values. I did asked whether this means that chaplains in secular schools should be given the axe. Another reality is that if we are going to battle discrimination we have a long fight ahead! (link is external)

 

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Edu-comment: Two comments on the Ruddock review:
1. Current discrimination is now, after the plebiscite, way out of step with public opinion.
2. The freedom of private schools to discriminate is unconscionable, given their level of public funding. But...this could be a debate we had to have...triggered by those who probably didn't want any debate at all. More in Pearls and Irritations.

 

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Here is a catch-up on events for the rest of September (viewed from afar).

 
Funding Wars:
The headings of the following articles tell their own story. The Fairfax media journalists and editorials are consistently critical:
Edu-comment: I'm starting to research the public cost of school choice and duplication of schools. So far I've found that competing small gov and non-gov schools in 100 NSW towns cost governments (state and federal) $30m extra each year. Watch this space!