Tony Moore offers suggestions for an education revolution beyond the boundaries of the private and public school systems.

Labor's pledge to keeping pumping valuable education dollars into the Coalition's wasteful SES funding scheme is bad policy, writes Lyndsay Connors.

Many teachers - particularly in the public system - still assume that education is something that happens to children, rather than with them, argues Joanna Mendelssohn. But current federal government policy won't bring about the changes needed in our schools.

Sheldon Rothman unpacks the stats on equity in Australia's education system, and finds that to help disadvantaged young people catch up to other groups we need much greater investment in the schools they attend.

Howard’s claim to have increased public school funding by 70% over the last ten years might not be a lie – or even a damn lie – but it’s definitely a dodgy statistic, writes Lyndsay Connors.

Bruce Wilson blames educational curricula for lost confidence by parents and proposes several solutions to remedy this, starting with a simpler, shorter, national curriculum.

This week it was revealed that private schools are receiving around $2 billion more than they are entitled to under the SES model for private school funding. In the latest instalment of the Centre for Policy Development's series on education funding policy, Anthony Ashbolt argues that all state aid to private schools reinforces anti-democratic tendencies in our society.

Deputy Federal President of the Australian Education Union Angelo Gavrielatos defends public education against recent attacks and outlines five key investments that governments should make to ensure that our public education system continues to deliver high quality education.

In the second instalment of our series on education funding policy Michael Furtado argues that the Catholic Education sector needs to stop fighting old battles and start building common ground with its real allies.

Chris Bonnor describes how inconsistent obligations condemn one sector to struggle and enable the other to succeed.