Education report shows 'little or no improvement since 1964'

Education report shows little or no improvement since 1964: "'We spent a lot of money on getting smaller classes in Australian schools and in the process we allowed teachers' salaries to stagnate. Maybe that was a bad decision in retrospect.'"

Whatever we might think, we need to get hold of the facts. Since 1964 we have more one parent homes, mores students working part time, more students on drugs and getting really drunk . We have mobile phone and game box diversions. We have non attendance and money will not change this. Teachers can only teach if the students are there, value education and if the teachers are competent enough to deliver the skills to alert students. In some countries it is illegal for students to have a part time job while they are at school. So we need to work out what is affecting our results and money may or may not cure it. I suspect it's the sorts of things money has no influence over.