The Donnelly-Wiltshire Review of the Australian Curriculum is due at the end of the month. We know a bit about what the reviewers thought before they began, but what have submissions to the review ...
With the new draft curriculum, there is a lot of debate and expert opinion floating around on what it means for school education. What is new and what has been discarded? What does it mean for our ...
Australia has a vast array of state and federal policies and programs aimed at improving teacher quality, leadership, literacy and numeracy, and so on. But none of them has moved the needle. Why not?
Not only is Indigenous history not a big enough focus of the national curriculum, what features isn’t academically rigorous. AAP The soon-to-be-released review of the Australian Curriculum was ...
86 per cent of Australian students will never learn about the Rwanda genocide the Cuban missile crisis and the Chernobyl disaster, and this is simply not good enough. This sparked an in-depth ...
As a symbolic document, a national history curriculum needs to accurately represent the nation’s religious past. (Lincoln Beddoe / iStock / Getty Images) The reality of national curriculum writing is ...
Australian science students are being taught around half the content of those in seven other international jurisdictions in the first nine years of schooling, which embeds “failure and inequality” in ...
Coalition-commissioned report could reignite Australia’s ‘history wars’ after recommending greater emphasis on ‘morals, values and spirituality’ and ‘the contribution of western civilisation’ ...