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With all the professional opposition to the ways in which the education transparency and accountability agenda has been prosecuted in Australia, one could be forgiven for thinking that the education profession is against accountability full stop. I believe that this is not the case and that there are things that we urgently need to do in Australia to improve educational accountability if we are to use it to drive good equity-focused policy, research and practice.
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Russell Skelton, King Brown Country: The Betrayal of Papunya, Allen and Unwin 2010.
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The evaluation noted that at the start of the trial there was an average of 17 people per (3 bedroom) house and that over the 3 years of the trial, a total of 4 new houses were built, 15 houses became uninhabitable and 200 babies were born.
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While these observations about NT government are quite damming, it is important to put it in context. NT could also argue quite correctly that the way in which Commonwealth/State negotiations and decisions are conducted never takes into account their highly unique context. There have been strong cases put to the effect that the disadvantage loading provided by the Productivity Commission is in urgent need of review – because it has never taken into account the complexity of additional costs associated with remoteness, historical disadvantage and current disadvantage. Similarly when new programmes are rolled out, such as the Smarter Schools National Partnerships, they are based on the assumption that to place a teacher in a school only requires the costs of deploying that teacher. To place one additional teacher in a remote community requires that a whole house is built – these programmes only cover operational costs.
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COAG Reform Council, National Partnership Agreement on Literacy and Numeracy: Performance report for 2010, Report to the Council of Australian Governments, 25 March 2011, p. 5. http://www.coagreformcouncil.gov.au/reports/docs/npln_final_report_25_march.pdf
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 2008 Social Justice Report, Australian Human Rights Commission Chapter 3, Remote Indigenous education.
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Clark, M. (2013). Getting Accountability Settings Right for Remote Indigenous Australians. In: Hughes, P. (eds) Achieving Quality Education for All. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5294-8_22
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