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John FrewPearls and Irritations |
A belief in merit, individual effort and opportunity means little if children begin life with radically unequal chances. Strong public education...
NAPLAN results are too often treated as proof of teaching quality alone, while funding gaps, staffing shortages, disruption, disadvantage and student...
Australians are not tuning out of democracy; they are losing faith in a political system that produces constant conflict but too little capacity to...
Aggregate disability statistics suggest the schooling sectors share responsibility, but they can conceal where the most complex support needs actually...
NAPLAN can reveal broad patterns in literacy and numeracy, but it cannot diagnose individual student needs and too often turns disadvantage into...
The World Cup presentation with Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino revealed how FIFA converts football’s collective wealth into patronage, reducing...
The World Cup created a rare global community, then FIFA and Trump tried to turn it into advertising inventory, spectacle and political theatre. At...
The Labor party has drifted away from its principles when it comes to funding public education, one of the nation’s defining democratic...
There is a gap between research and the schoolroom. It can be bridged by creating a reciprocal relationship between knowledge and practice. An article...
The future of Test cricket points to a wider problem in modern sport: crowds create the meaning, identity and emotional value that commercial systems...
Australia’s education debate must move beyond funding and sector structure to confront a deeper governance problem: school systems that measure...
The Socceroos’ success is more than a sporting story – it is a reminder that the children of migrants and refugees are not outsiders to...
The Socceroos’ success is more than a sporting story: it is a reminder that the children of migrants and refugees are not outsiders to Australia’s...
Australia’s school funding debate has focused on headline spending figures while obscuring whether resources counted toward the Schooling Resource...
As conflict escalates, FIFA insists the 2026 World Cup will proceed unchanged. The decision reflects a broader pattern – institutions continuing...
Australia’s charitable framework now rewards compliance over need, allowing well-resourced institutions and contested activities to sit alongside...
Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility....
Educational disadvantage in Australia is often framed as urban or socioeconomic. But across regional and remote communities, public schools operate...
Public outrage fixates on the absence of shame among elites. But the deeper problem is cultural and structural – a political economy that has pushed...
Victoria’s latest school funding agreement freezes public schools below the Schooling Resource Standard, formalising stagnation while preserving the...
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