Abstract
The dialogue of this paper operates at two levels. First, it seeks to rethink the various perspectives on social justice evident in the academic literature, reviewing what is collectively known about it and where current thinking is taking and/or should be taking us. Second, it reports on research concerning the schooling of students with disabilities or, more accurately, research concerning the practices of teachers in relation to the inclusion of students with disabilities within 'mainstream' classrooms.
This paper explores the issues of demographic transition, Indigenous education, workforce participation and productivity, by establishing interactions between population change, educational outcomes and workforce participation among the Indigenous residents of Wadeye in the Northern Territory.
The gulf between the city and rural Australia is clearly apparent in an analysis of school performance, with only a handful of provincial schools among the 100 top scorers and the bottom performers dominated by schools in remote and very remote Australia.
The State, Territory and Commonwealth Ministers of Education met as the 11th Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) in Sydney, 30-31 March 2000. In reaching agreement to address areas of common concern, the State, Territory and Commonwealth Ministers of Education committed to the a set of principles and standards for more culturally inclusive schooling in the 21st Century, for use as a framework for action.
The Federal Government's MySchool website is drawing criticism from parents and teachers who fear that school ranking by media will lead to naming and shaming schools from disadvantaged areas.
The children of older mothers perform better in tests than those of younger women, Australian research has found.
The study, by Andrew Leigh and Xiaodong Gong from the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University, provides evidence that children born to mothers in their 20s performed better than those born to teenage mothers.
