Why Australian school kids are failing
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 the education system.
The lack of depth and quality in the curriculum is one of the key factors behind Australia’s relentless drift downwards on international tests, such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) run by the OECD, according to educationalist Ben Jensen.
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