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Education news

• Australian Policy Online
  
• Australian Teacher
  
• BBC News (UK)
  
• Education Review
  
• Education Week (US)
  
• Fair Test (US)
  
• Gotham Schools (US)
  
• Guardian (UK)
  
• Huffington Post (US)
  
• Independent (UK)
  
• New York Times (US)
  
• The Telegraph (UK)
  
• This Week in Education (US)
  
• Times Education Supplement (UK)
  

Education blogs

• Answer Sheet (US)
  
• Bridging Differences (US)
  
• Diane Ravitch's blog (US)
  
• Educator Voices
  
• Engaging Parents in School (US)
  
• Funding for Real Equality in Education
  
• Maralyn Parker
  
• Mortarboard (UK)
  
• New York City Public School Parents (US)
  
• Online Opinion
  
• Opt Out of School Testing (US)
  
• Save Our Schools (US)
  
• Schools Matter (US)
  
• Shanker blog (US)
  
• Time Out From Testing (US)
  

Education information

• Aussie Educator
  
• Effects of NAPLAN
  
• Literacy Educators Coalition
  
• OECD Education
  

Public education

• ACT P&C Council
  
• Australian Council of State School Organisations
  
• Australian Education Union
  
• Broader Bolder Approach to Education (US)
  
• Campaign for Educational Equity (US)
  
• Campaign for State Education (UK)
  
• Community Organizing for School Reform (US)
  
• People for Education (Can)
  
• Public Education Network (US)
  

Policy Briefs

• New National Goals for Education
  
• What is Equity In Education?
  
• Rorting and Cheating is now the Rule with NAPLAN
  
• Issues in Using Enrolment Data to Measure the Socio-Economic Status of Schools
  
• Private Schools Make a Brazen Grab for More Resources
  
• Public Education Should be Free
  

Research

• Catholic Education Authorities Mislead on Over-Funding
  
• Charter Schools are not a Good Advertisement for School Autonomy
  
• From Opportunity to Outcomes - The Changing Role of Public in Australia and National Funding Arrangements
  
• Voucher Models Will be a Funding Bonanza for Private Schools
  
• Inequity in Education Outcomes and Funding
  
• School Enrolment Shares by Sector in the ACT - Barbara Preston
  
• Small Schools and Education Outcomes
  
• Increases in Fees and Government Funding for Elite Private Schools 2001-2011
  
• PISA 2009 Results at a Glance
  
• Closing the Gaps
  
• Teacher Bonuses and Student Achievement
  
• Published School Results and League Tables are Misleading and Unreliable
  
• Publication of School Results and League Tables Harm Education
  
• Reporting School Results and Student Achievement
  
• Government Funding for Elite Private Schools: An Upper Class Welfare Policy
  
• Like School Comparisons Do Not Measure Up
  
• Local Area School Comparisons are 'Simplistic' and Unfair League Tables
  
• The case against school league tables
  
• The Free Market and the Social Divide in Education
  
• Naively Stomping Around in an Uninformed Epistemopathological Fog - The Case for Reporting Statistical Error on School Results
  
• Research Paper - New York is Not Working
  
• School Outcomes in the ACT - 2008
  
• Choice or equity in Education?
  
• SES Overfunding Study Overview.
  
• SES Over-Funding Review -Detailed Analysis
  
• A High Quality, Low Equity and Socially Segregated School System
  
• Howard Government School Education Policy
  
• The Interaction of School Size and Socio-Economic Status on Student Performance
  
• Economics of Towards 2020: Renewing our Schools
  
• The Hobbit Effect – Small Schools Work (external site)
  

Speeches

• Beyond Gonksi: The Fight for Equity in Education
  
• The State of ACT Education
  
• Closing the Achievement Gaps in Australian Schools
  
• Looking Back at School Closure Issues in the ACT
  
• League tables at Politics at the Pub
  

Submissions

• Submission to the Legislative Assembly inquiry into school closures
  
• Proposed Re-location of Islamic School
  
• Funding for Students with Disabilities in NSW Private Schools
  
• Submission to Senate Education Committee Inquiry on NAPLAN and My School - Conclusions and Recommendations
  
• Submission to Gonski Review of School Funding
  
• Submission on Gonski Review Research Reports
  
• A Vision for 2020
  
• Supplementary Submission on the Draft National Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians
  
• ACT Government abandons equity in education
  
• Submission on ACT School Closures
  
• Social Equity in Education as a National Goal
  
• SOS Submission to ACT Legislative Assembly inquiry on the Achievement Gap