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Research

• Achieving Outcomes for Children and Families from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds (new window)
• Australians with disabilities and social inclusion: Getting on the agenda (new window)
• Brotherhood of St Laurence - Social Inclusion Program 2008
• Child social exclusion: an update index from the 2006 Census
• Diagnosing school decline
• Distressed neighborhoods and child disability rates: analyses of 157 000 school-age children
• Edutopia: What works in public education
• Empowering Refugees - A Good Practice Guide to Humanitarian Settlement
• Has the risk of social exclusion for Australian children become more geographically concentrated?
• Inventory of Practices for Promoting Social Competence (new window)
• Leading schools in poor communities - What do we know and how do we know it? (new window)
• Productivity Commission Report - 2008 (School Education) (new window)
• Quality Education: The case for an Education Revolution in our Schools (new window)
• Whole school change that spreads and lasts: A technology of resilience for schools working within adverse conditions (new window)

Media statements

Queensland

• $1.4M boost to improve literacy and numeracy for disadvantaged children

Media statement 07 Sep 2008, Qld Govt, Rod Welford, Minister for Education & Training

On the eve of Child Protection Week, the Bligh Government has welcomed a $1.4 million grant to help boost literacy and numeracy skills in primary school children in the care of the state. Education and Training Minister Rod Welford said the Federal Government funding would support a pilot program to teach foster carers in low socio-economic areas intervention and support strategies to help at-risk students.

• State Budget to boost education with new schools, more teachers

Media statement 03 Jun 2008, Qld Govt, Rod Welford, Minister for Education & Training

The 2008-09 State Budget will deliver a major boost to education, including new schools, more teachers and teacher aides, and a significant increase for state school maintenance. Education and Training Minister Rod Welford said the initiatives were part of the Bligh Government's commitment to building a clever, skilled and creative Queensland.

• Tutoring program boosts student literacy

Media statement 11 Mar 2008, Qld Govt, Rod Welford, Minister for Education & Training

A new personalised tutoring program has given extra support to more than 19,000 primary school students with literacy problems since it was introduced in 2007. Education and Training Minister Rod Welford said the program, which is running again this year, was continuing to help students struggling with literacy in their upper primary years.

See Upper Primary Literacy Grant

• $10 million pilot to encourage Indigenous students' successes

Media statement 23 Nov 2008, Qld Govt, Rod Welford, Minister for Education & Training

State and non-state schools in five regional areas will benefit from the State Government's new $10 million four-year pilot program which aims to enhance Indigenous students' educational achievements. Education and Training Minister Rod Welford said the Indigenous Education Support Structures pilot program would operate in the Mount Isa, Cairns, Rockhampton, Ipswich/Inala and Cunnamulla/Charleville education cluster sites.

Commonwealth

• $40 Million for literacy and numeracy pilot projects

Joint media release 28 Aug 2008, Australian Govt, Julia Gillard, Minister for Education; and Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia

Today the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education officially launched National Literacy and Numeracy Week 2008 by announcing a $40 million literacy and numeracy initiative. The Rudd Government will invest $40.2 million in 29 literacy and numeracy pilot projects in schools across Australia.

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