Jim and Jillian Dellit established this website to bring together their various endeavours, to engage with and contribute to the educational community and educational delivery. Jillian is continuing this work both in her own right, and to keep faith with Jim's life, 1947-2014, and their productive partnership 1970-2014.

Monthly Archives: August 2011

August 20

It doesn’t have to be like this posted by Jillian in Education reform, equity

  In 1986, while working in the Equal Opportunity Unit of the South Australian Education Department, Margaret Wallace and I conducted a consultation with women about their schooling. We visited schools and talked to mothers of students. One woman’s response has … Continue reading

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August 10

Our concept of public education posted by Jillian in Education policy, Education reform, equity

One of the basic British reforms of the nineteenth century that enabled improvements for the middle-class and then the working-class, was the introduction of differential tax scales. 

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August 3

Our un-Australian Equity Gap posted by Jillian in ACARA, Education policy, Education reform, equity, Uncategorized

With all its shortcomings, the My School website, together with data from successive PISA results, is providing evidence that you need  more than luck to get a fair educational go in the Lucky Country.

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