This book addresses the proposition that the future of education reform in Australia, and elsewhere, has to be tied to issues of community inequality which are the principal contributors to poor educational achievement. In other words, education is not the way out of poverty. Rather, a country s education gains depend on reducing the country s poverty and its impacts on families. Improving educational achievement needs joined up solutions. It is for these reasons that the book includes an essay on economics which summarizes the main features of neoclassical economics and outlines alternative...

This book addresses the notion that education reform must be tied to issues of community inequality which are the principal contributors to low achievement. Bluntly put, education is not the way out of poverty, but reducing poverty is crucial to education.