Increased Funding not the Answer to Improved Education Outcomes

A Study by the Centre for Independent Studies (https://www.cis.org.au/) shows increased funding for schools is not necessarily key to improvement in school performance. A study of disadvantaged primary schools found that key to making a disadvantaged school into a high achieving one was:

• school discipline

• direct and explicit instruction

• experienced and autonomous school leadership

• data informed practice

• teacher collaboration and professional learning

• comprehensive early reading instruction

Source: Overcoming the Odds: A Study of Australia's Top Performing Disadvantaged Schools by Blaise Jospeh.