Quality Education - The case for an Education Revolution in our Schools

The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched Quality Education: The case for an Education Revolution in our Schools at the National Press Club on Wednesday 27 August 2008. 

The Family-Schools Community Partnership Bureau

The Family-Schools Community Partnership Bureau is funded by the Australian Government to work with Principals associations, state and territory educational authorities and school and community organisations to develop and encourage effective partnerships between schools, parents and the community to improve students’ learning experiences and outcomes.

The Bureau recently researched and reported two research documents including:

Effective Partnerships in Practice a qualitative research project on family, school and community partnerships undertaken by Denis Muller & Associates on behalf of the Family-Schools Community Partnership Bureau.

Outline: The research undertaken in this report presented six case studies of parental engagement/partnership projects that had been ongoing for several years. The case studies are intended to provide examples of good sustainable partnerships that could inspire future projects.

 View the Effective Partnerships in Practice document below

( PDF 121KB | RTF 488KB)

What Parents Say about Teachers, Schools and Family-School Partnerships a report on the outcomes of parent focus groups conducted in early 2009 by Brenton Holmes on behalf of the Bureau.

Outline: In early 2009, the Bureau conducted focus groups with parents of schoolchildren to gain some insight into how parents viewed the quality of education of their children and to get a sense of the language and concepts parents used when talking about education and schooling

View the What Parents Say about Teachers, Schools and Family-School Partnerships document below

( PDF 50KB | RTF 142KB)