Articles
Dr Jill Blackmore:
'Can we create a form of public education that delivers high standards for all students in the emerging knowledge society? '
'Choice and Voice: parents perspectives on public education'
Chris Bonnor
'Education is no place for a free market'Jane Caro & Chris Bonnor
BOOK - 'The Stupid Country: How Australia is Dismantling Public Education'Published by NewSouth Books, 2007
This book warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion and a great sense of urgency Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro show how government, anxious parents, the church and ideology are combining to undermine public schools. The Stupid Country is not a one-sided defence of public education. But it challenges us to consider whether we really want to continue stumbling blindly down our current path, risking the health of our public schools and everything they have created - our prosperity, unity, stability -even, perhaps, our democracy.
Jane Caro:
'The rich are buying their way into sandstone uni's and sandstone schools'
'Towards a level playing field'
'Who killed public education'
'Good News for Anxious Parents'
'Who is starving public education?'
'The dismantling of a great public education system'
'Gaining a degree in disadvantage'
'7 Reason why public schools are not just better for your kids'
Lyndsay Connors:
'Public funding of private schools'Kenneth Davidson:
'Good schools become a private benefit'
'Liberal education'
Catherine Deveney:
'If you want private education for your kids, pay for it yourself'Roslyn Guy:
'Schools need parents to play their part'Bill Hannan:
'The School As Market'
BOOK - 'The Best of Times' The story of the great secondary school expansion, Published by Lexis, 2009
Linda Jaivin:
'Excerpt from 'The Getting of Wisdom'Michael Kirby
'In Praise Of Excellence In Public Education'Kath Lockette
'No meed to go the distance for a good school' (Writer for the Age's 'My Career' section)Shane Maloney:
'An invitation to Scotch College'Prof. Simon Marginson:
'The buck stops where?Roy Martin:
'Where Should Commonwealth School Funding be Going?'Dr Janet McCalman:
'Private education is bad for the economy'
'We should all pay for a good education'
Assoc. Prof. Alan Reid:
'Public Education and the Remutualisation of Australian Society'
'The Redefinition of Australian Democracy'
Guy Rundle:
'When Christian schools bear false witness'Richard Teese & John Polesel:
'Undemocratic Schooling'Richard Teese:
'Suffer The Children Left Behind'Dr Tony Townsend:
'Education and Public debate'
'Towards a global curriculum'
'Parents are critical'
'Education for a productive future'
Other articles of interest
1. 'Elite Schools Rake in Profits' by Natalie Craig - THE AGE 11/09/2010
2. 'Private school gain means public pain' by Anna Patty and Dan Harrison - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 19/01/2010
3.'Public schools sacrificed for a win at any cost' by Kenneth Davidson - THE AGE 9/08/2010
4.'Respecting our schools' by Julie Szego - THE AGE February 2008
5.'$50 million elite schools piggybank' by Deborah Gough - THE AGE February 2008
6.'It's class war as elite schools roll in money' by Deborah Gough - THE AGE February 2008
7.'At the crossroads?' by Michael Bachelard - THE AGE February 2008
8.'Faith school boom creates division' by Michael Bachelard - THE AGE February 2008
Plus many articles to be found on
www.dissent.com.au and Save Our SchoolsArticles of interest on www.aeufederal.org.au
1. The OECD Education at a Glance Report 2006
2. Trevor Cobbold - The Free Market and the Social Divide in Education
3. AEU National Public Education Campaign
4. Voting for Public Education: Election 2010 An AEU overview of education announcements made during the 2010 Federal election campaign
5. Keynote Address by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO Governor of NSW to the 2nd National Public Education Forum, 27 March 2010