New data collected by Learning First shows that AI is routinely being used in schools now by teachers, leaders, and their students.

This report examines Ireland's education system, exploring the factors that have driven its consistently strong performance on international assessments over more than two decades.

This report sets out the results of detailed analysis and benchmarking of the Australian science curriculum with curriculums in comparable and high-performing systems around the world.

This report, produced by Learning First in July 2020, examines how Victorian schools experienced the shift to remote and flexible learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report examines why literacy strategies that focus on teaching discrete reading skills - such as "finding the main idea" - often fail to improve student achievement. Drawing on examples from the United States, this report argues that reading comprehension depends on content knowledge, and calls for assessment approaches that reflect this.

This report sets out the contemporary evidence on its impact on student learning, with a focus on research from the United States.

The research ‘Overcoming challenges facing contemporary curriculum: detailed case studies’, was commissioned by the NSW Education Standards Authority.

The research ‘Overcoming challenges facing contemporary curriculum: detailed case studies’, was commissioned by the NSW Education Standards Authority.

This report begins with an overview of the latest research in leadership, which is primarily focused on business leadership. It finds that the best business research programs have the same characteristics as school leadership programs in the top-performing countries: they are highly contextualized and engage leaders in addressing real problems.

This report is the Australian edition of the 2016 international study Not So Elementary, commissioned by the Center on International Education Benchmarking at the National Center on Education and the Economy.

This is the Australian edition of Beyond PD: Teacher Professional Learning in High-Performing Systems. Support for this report came from The National Center on Education and the Economy and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

This report, part of Learning First's Spotlight Series, examines the key problems and systemic challenges facing initial teacher education.