Ian Gordon is the President of the Statistical Society of Australia, one of the bodies that commissioned the new report mentioned in this piece. Mary P. Coupland is a co-author of the report mentioned ...

I once asked a colleague if he’d read a particular book. “Read it?” he replied incredulously. “I haven’t even taught it!” A former college English professor, he came by the joke honestly. The first ...

Cath Pearn is affiliated with both the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne. I’m sure most people can remember trying ...