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Courageous Clare’s plan to stop Australia’s great schooling rot
A Labor education minister is now acknowledging that the problems and solutions for Australian schools lie in fixing the poor quality training that teachers receive in our universities.
Jason Clare’s back-to-basics plan to shake up how teachers are taught to be teachers and to stop Australia’s great schooling rot suggests that a Labor education minister may have recognised the fundamental flaw with the previous Labor government’s Gonski “education revolution”.
The redistributional rationale for Gonski was to reallocate education funding from private to public schools to tackle socioeconomic educational disadvantage.
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