{"id":33065,"date":"2012-06-15T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_kevin_donnelly-greater_autonomy_for_schools_leads_to_better_academic_r\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:00:53","slug":"smh_kevin_donnelly-greater_autonomy_for_schools_leads_to_better_academic_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33065","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Kevin Donnelly&#8211;Greater autonomy for schools leads to better academic results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Teachers Federation and public school advocates such as Trevor Cobbold argue that there is little, if any, evidence to support the benefits of increased school autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>If true, their claims undermine the argument that choice and diversity in education, represented by autonomous government and non-government schools, is a good thing and suggest that moves around Australia to empower schools at the local level are misdirected.<\/p>\n<p>But there is increasing international evidence that freeing schools from centralised and bureaucratic control is beneficial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/greater-autonomy-for-schools-leads-to-better-academic-results-20120614-20d3y.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Teachers Federation and public school advocates such as Trevor Cobbold argue that there is little, if any, evidence to support the benefits of increased school autonomy. If true, their claims undermine the argument that choice and diversity in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33065\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,204,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}