Appetite for significant curriculum reform is brewing, as experts warn Australia risks lagging behind on the international ...

Bill Louden represented Western Australia on the Board of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority from 2008 to 2012. The Donnelly-Wiltshire Review of the Australian Curriculum is ...

Whenever evidence of poor school performance makes the headlines, teachers are invariably blamed. But teachers and school leaders don’t deserve our disrespect, they deserve an apology. We have failed ...

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 ...

Aussie kids are being let down by ‘impossible’ national curriculum with parents fearing they aren’t being taught the basics of reading, writing and maths. The national curriculum has also been accused ...

The War on Terror, heightened airport security and cultural clashes were some of the many repercussions of the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks that killed nearly 3000 people. Tomorrow at Ground Zero in lower ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A revised Australian curriculum would give greater weight to the nation’s diversity and to First Nations culture, but less emphasis on ...

The number of content descriptions of what teachers should teach and what students should learn has been cut by 21%. In primary school geography, 50% of these descriptions have gone or been reduced.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As the dust settles on proposed changes to the national curriculum, gears must shift from debating the political to a focus on advancing ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian primary and high school students spend nearly 74 per cent more time in the classroom as Finnish students and have the most ...