Gonski billions must be used to target priorities

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OPINION: The Productivity Commission has found that huge Gonski funding is failing to reverse Australia’s educational decline. Labor needs to rethink how it is used.

The Productivity Commission has shockingly concluded that the $320 billion in “Give a Gonski” funding to be thrown at schools over a decade from 2018 onwardsThat’s because the National School Reform Agreement deal set up between Canberra and the states to lift school performance has not arrested a decline in student results, both absolutely and relative to Australia’s peers.

All students, but disadvantaged ones in particular, need a small number of clear benchmarks and timelines, which would help reform efforts by holding governments to account. Teacher shortages are most acute in English, mathematics and science, with more out-of-field teaching. Too many teachers learn their job not through proven methods based on international evidence, but by relying on peers instead. Little spare time means that very few have trained to become lead teachers who might spread best practice. Nor are teaching assistants, who might reduce workloads, as well-used as they might be.

 

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