The nation’s school science curriculum sets students up for failure against top-performing countries. And Victoria’s is even worse.
A new draft high school visual arts curriculum has relegated painting to a single footnote and drawing is no longer mandatory – and teachers say it is “disappointingly reductive”.
The NSW government has delayed planned changes for multiple subjects to allow teachers to focus on “core learning”.
Almost 65,000 kindergarten students will start at NSW public schools this week,learning a new curriculum that focuses on phonics to learn to read.
Australians love a curriculum debate but there’s one element that everyone ignores,at a significant cost to students,experts say.
English teachers will have to teach grammar and punctuation under a draft syllabus,but some are not happy.
The culture wars and political tensions over the national curriculum show society cares about what children are taught,the chief of the independent curriculum authority says.
A new draft removes references to the Anzac legend as ‘contested’,cements the importance of physics and reverses controversial changes to maths.
A maths war is erupting as traditionalists and progressives argue about what students should know,and the best way to teach them.
Dozens of mathematicians and maths teachers have written to the national curriculum authority,concerned that changes to the maths curriculum will mean “students end up knowing less”.
Education Minister Alan Tudge declared the school funding wars over and said it was time to talk about teaching and standards.