The latest Gonski report points a way to the future of school reform, but has not broken with its disastrous past, writes Dean Ashenden.

Labor’s shadow education minister faces the problem of working out why school reform has failed, and what a federal education minister could do about it.

A collection of articles on national education policy was posted to the TJ Ryan Foundation website during this year’s federal election campaign. Much of this commentary highlighted the failure of the campaign to confront the policy vacuum which faces administrators in tertiary institutions and those charged with the equitable distribution of public and private funds...

Credentialism has distorted the direction and basis of half a century’s education and training policy, argues Dean Ashenden.

Christopher Pyne’s teacher education review wants serious reform, but it may serve to protect the monopoly that produced the problems.