Jennifer Buckingham

Research Fellow, Social Foundations Program

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Jennifer’s main area of work is school education, and she has published papers on issues including school funding, boys’ education, teacher training and employment, class size, school performance reporting, and educational disadvantage. She is the author of the policy monographs Boy Troubles (2000), Families, Freedom and Education (2001), Schools in the Spotlight (2003), and Schools of Thought: A Collection of Articles on Education (2009).

Her other publications have been on child care, female labour force participation, and NSW trains. She also edited the Centre’s State of the Nation series from 1999 to 2004.

Jennifer has been at the forefront of debate on education matters, with more than a hundred articles in major newspapers and regular radio appearances. Jennifer was schools editor at The Australian newspaper from May 2004 to June 2005.