Jennifer Buckingham

Smart move to keep smartphones out of classrooms

20 September 2018 6:41 pm

Smartphones have become a big educational talking point. This year, the French government banned the use of mobile phones in schools, while…

Cut the losses on Gonski 2.0 review and quietly back away

30 April 2018 11:05 am

You have to feel just a little bit sorry for Simon Birmingham. The federal education minister was effectively shoe-horned into…

60 Minutes: can do better

31 January 2018 7:57 am

For the last ten years or so, people have been credulously extolling the virtues of Finland’s education policies. Journalists in many media outlets have amplified…

Ignore the preschool panic

27 June 2017 1:37 pm

You might forgive parents reading the Sydney Morning Herald this week for thinking they’d better abandon their skinny latte and…

Woolly thinking won’t help with education

17 June 2017 6:54 am

Some weeks more than others, the woolly thinking that leads to poor policy is blindingly obvious. Education policy development is…

The neoliberals ate my maths homework

30 November 2016 9:57 pm

The latest international maths and science results suggest that Australia is a slow learner when it comes to improving school…

RIP Reading Recovery

23 September 2016 2:17 pm

Thanks to NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, the deeply entrenched, multi-million dollar Reading Recovery program will no longer be sacrosanct…

The Productivity Commission’s schools fail

6 September 2016 10:29 am

The Productivity Commission’s draft report into the evidence base for education confirms there has been little improvement in student outcomes…