Counting national school enrolment shares in Australia: the political arithmetic of declining public school enrolment

Rowe, Emma

doi:10.1007/s13384-019-00365-9

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“…Potential selection effects were addressed with prior achievement scores and control variables for sex, indigeneity, language background other than English, and school type (public or private), which is a key mechanism of school choice in Australia (Rowe, 2020). Descriptive statistics for all variables are in the Additional file 1: Tables S1 and S2.…”

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“…One method to mitigate selection bias is to include variables that may capture the probability of school selection (Palardy, 2013;Rangvid, 2007). Controlling for school sector in Australian samples likely captures much of the potential selection effect because of the high degree of school choice in Australia (ABS, 2017;Rowe, 2020). Family selection of private schools is an indicator of family academic aspiration in Australia (Warren, 2016).…”

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The substantiveness of socioeconomic school compositional effects in Australia: measurement error and the relationship with academic composition

Sciffer

Perry

McConney

2022

Large-scale Assess Educ

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This study examines the effect of school socioeconomic composition on student achievement growth in Australian schooling, and its relationship with academic composition utilising the National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) dataset. Previous research has found that school composition predicts a range of schooling outcomes. A critique of school compositional research has been that measurement error may have biased findings of compositional effects. Prior studies have found that socioeconomic compositional effect sizes are small when models include academic composition. The relationship between socioeconomic and academic compositions has yet to be fully determined. Multi-level regressions and structural equation models were compared to estimate the degree of bias in socioeconomic compositional effects due to measurement error. Multi-level path models were used to test if academic composition mediated the relationship between socioeconomic composition and achievement growth. The results showed that measurement error did not bias compositional effects in the dataset, and academic composition mediates the relationship between socioeconomic composition and achievement growth. We argue that school value-add research should include academic composition to account for contextual effects. The socioeconomic compositional effect is of practical significance to policy makers and educational researchers due to its relative size compared to average student achievement growth. Potential reforms include ensuring public subsidies to private schools in Australia do not increase school segregation and the amelioration of the effects of residential segregation through school funding reforms.

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The substantiveness of socioeconomic school compositional effects in Australia: measurement error and the relationship with academic composition

Sciffer

Perry

McConney

2022

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“…Australian private schools add no value to student achievement growth (Larsen et al, 2022), nor to post-school outcomes such as occupation and earnings (Chesters, 2018). The lack of value-add by private schools compared to public schools is regularly reported in the media (Muroi, 2023;Sahlberg, 2022) and by the Australian government's school accountability website (ACARA, 2023), yet the private school enrolment share has continued to grow (Rowe, 2020).This suggests that like US families, many middle-class Australian families make school choices based on class and cultural contexts.…”

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Socioeconomic and indigenous school segregation: The role of institutional differentiation and fees

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Perry²,

McConney³

2023

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Secondary school differentiation in Australia is a substantial driver of the segregation of low SES and Indigenous students. Such segregation acts as a mechanism for the intergenerational transfer of social disadvantages. Indigenous students are doubly-segregated into schools with high concentrations of low SES and Indigenous students. No school type is representative of the student population. Catholic, independent and public selective schools are associated with student segregation within geographical areas. School fees are the strongest predictor of segregation and partially explain the effect of differential school types. Independent schools are the strongest school type predicting segregation, followed by Catholic, then selective schools. States with lower rates of Catholic, independent and selective schools have lower levels of segregation. Private schools are far from enrolling a fair proportion of disadvantaged students in proportion to the public financing they receive. Substantial reforms to school and system reporting are required to end the exclusion of disadvantaged students.

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“…Venture philanthropy is partnering rather than giving , or in other words, building influence and affecting change—and often this “partnering” occurs in a context where charitable acts are desperately needed—such as public education. In Australia, public schools are largely funded by their respective state or territory government rather than the federal government, whereas the continually growing and expanding private sector is funded by the well-resourced federal government, and high parent fees (Forsey et al, 2017; Rowe, 2019). Public schools are increasingly underfunded, resulting in significant funding gaps, with public schools spending extraordinary amounts of their time on fundraising from the community, or simply, going without (Rowe & Perry, 2020a, 2020b; Thompson et al, 2019).…”

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Philanthrocapitalism and the State: Mapping the Rise of Venture Philanthropy in Public Education in Australia

Rowe

2022

ECNU Review of Education

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Purpose This article maps the rise of venture philanthropy in public education in Australia, exploring how policy networks mobilize high-level systemic reform and governance technologies. This is philanthrocapitalism, a fundamental shift for policy mobility and modes of redistribution. Design/Approach/Methods Drawing upon network ethnography, I focus on a node called Social Ventures Australia (SVA), an organization committed to revolutionizing venture philanthropy in Australian education reform. SVA, the brainchild of McKinsey & Company and multinational corporations, is a useful example to map how venture philanthropy leverages resources and, in the process, fundamentally changes the shape, functionality, and form of traditional government. Findings SVA has successfully advocated for several intermediaries, such as an evidence broker (Evidence for Learning), a national charity (Schools Plus), and a national education research institute (Australian Education Research Organisation). Overlapping philanthropy and state, the intermediaries stand as a critical assemblage and technology of governance. Originality/Value Venture philanthropy and the way in which these networks achieve high-level systemic reform is under-researched in Australia. It stands as a critical lever of policy reform in public education. This article will scrutinize and map the way these networks mobilize reform and function as an identifiable form of economic exchange.

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Counting national school enrolment shares in Australia: the political arithmetic of declining public school enrolment

Cited by 5 publications

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The substantiveness of socioeconomic school compositional effects in Australia: measurement error and the relationship with academic composition

The substantiveness of socioeconomic school compositional effects in Australia: measurement error and the relationship with academic composition

Socioeconomic and indigenous school segregation: The role of institutional differentiation and fees

Philanthrocapitalism and the State: Mapping the Rise of Venture Philanthropy in Public Education in Australia

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