Australia urgently needs to debate and resolve some fundamental questions about the future of school education. Do we want to educate our children mainly in government-assisted fee-paying private schools, based on an exclusive clientele identified by socio-economic status, religion, ethnicity or some other dimension? Or do we want them mainly to be in inclusive government-funded public schools, mixing with children…
Daily Archives September 10, 2006
Choosing a school in a knowledge Vacuum. The first is the fact that the differences within any given group are always greater than the differences between two groups. The fact the differences within a group are bigger than differences between groups also applies to schools. There is very hard data showing "individual schools" are much more influential than "school sector"…