Australian Curriculum gets an F for failing teachers and students
Correlation isn’t causation, yet surely it is fair enough to connect poor student achievement with the vagueness and deficiencies in a curriculum setting out what is taught in schools.
A deep dive into Australia’s “narrow and shallow” national science curriculum helps solve the puzzling equation of Australia’s failing, yet increasingly costly, school system.
The formula that doesn’t add up is that as additional billions from Gonski “education revolution” funding have poured into schools over the past decade, student performance on national and international literacy, numeracy and science tests has declined.
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