Are Teachers Still the Problem? An Analysis of the NSW Education What Works Best Documents

This paper interrogates Stacey’s assertion that New South Wales (NSW) education policy is underpinned by a ‘particular instance of neoliberalisation’ which has significant ‘direct and material impacts’ on teachers. It examines the role Evidence-based Practice can play in neoliberalist reform globally analyses Centre for Education Statistics Evaluation’s What Works Best documents. The asserts character NSW consistent with wider Global Reform Movement continues to exhibit extend tendencies identified Stacey. Furthermore, it claims that, through collection devices, teachers are being ‘governed at distance’ documents such as Best. hoped this might provide ‘insights arguments help them resist unwarranted expectations about evidence their practices even more so interventions practices’.