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School curriculum review ‘lacks intellectual rigour’

Robert Bolton
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The national review of school curriculums is at risk of becoming an “amorphous collection of general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities”, while failing to deal with specific problems of literacy, numeracy and equality of opportunity, according to a former director of curriculum for Australia, Fiona Mueller.

Fiona Mueller: “The Australian curriculum has been captured by the 21st century learning agenda.”  Sam Mooy

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Robert Bolton is the Education editor. He covers primary and secondary education, universities and training. Connect with Robert on Twitter. Email Robert at rbolton@afr.com

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