We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School …) the My School website launch. We find scarce evidence of meaningful adjustments over time, but we do find evidence of … significantly different policies and practices across school groups. …

life. A key challenge for the school sector is to reduce the achievement gaps of the lowest performing students, while … improving overall literacy and numeracy outcomes. Greater autonomy at the school level and improvements in teaching quality …

qualifications to teach these subjects. This paper examines the effects of individual teacher characteristics and school context on … of out-of-field teaching in STEM subjects. In particular, it examines the role of school autonomy and staff shortage in … either mediate or confound their effects. A full understanding of the results requires knowing the role of school funding and …

qualifications to teach these subjects. This paper examines the effects of individual teacher characteristics and school context on … of out-of-field teaching in STEM subjects. In particular, it examines the role of school autonomy and staff shortage in … either mediate or confound their effects. A full understanding of the results requires knowing the role of school funding and …

This paper provides an overview of the higher education sector in Canada, so it can serve as a comparison to that in … Australia. It seeks to identify stresses and challenges to this sector in Canada. The study also seeks to offer possible lessons … for the direction of higher education policy in Australia and to raise concerns for the direction in Canada. The focus of …

This study finds that approaching 10% of the variation in high school student achievement is explained by teacher …

employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the population of state school students for … discontinuity design (RDD) based on administrative rules on age of school enrolment. The class assigning mechanism operates via a … postponed the school starting age by 6 months and produced a large increase in the compliance rate. This enables one to gauge …