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Colleen Harkin says the left pile is Australia’s maths curriculum and the right pile is Singapore’s.

Counting controversy: IPA sticks to claim that maths curriculum is 3500 pages long

The think tank says Australia’s maths curriculum is too complicated and packed with ideology. The body that writes the curriculum doesn’t agree.

  • Madeleine Heffernan and Kishor Napier-Raman

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Cassandra Pride completed a masters in education at La Trobe.

‘Nothing in my degree to prepare me for that’: Why student teachers face big changes

Australian universities have until the end of the year to overhaul more than 280 teacher training courses.

  • Lucy Carroll
Teacher Leah Myers completed a second master’s degrees to understand the latest teaching methods.

Universities radically reform teaching degrees as deadline looms

Everything Leah Myers knew about her job was “flipped on its head” after sweeping reforms to teacher training followed a national review.

  • Alex Crowe
Australia has a maths problem. One in three of our school students fail to achieve proficiency in maths.

WA students with ‘maths dyslexia’ fall through the cracks as crisis worsens

The low percentage of WA students excelling in maths means those with the learning disorder dyscalculia are falling through the cracks.

  • Holly Thompson
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How these schools are teaching their way out of a national maths crisis

Australia has been too slow to scrap “faddish, unproven” maths teaching methods, a new report says. These schools have found the secret to success.

  • Lucy Carroll
Both teachers have had their teaching licences disqualified.

WA high school teachers banned for sexualising female students

Court documents have revealed that in both cases, the men’s conduct was “so serious that it is likely to bring the teaching profession into disrepute”.

  • Holly Thompson
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Premier David Crisafulli and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announce the new school funding deal in Canberra.

Queensland investing less in state school students than every other state, except Victoria

Queensland students have been receiving thousands of dollars less in state government funding than their interstate counterparts, data reveals. 

  • Marissa Calligeros
Schools are having to rely on relief teachers.

Not allowed to teach, too valuable to lose: registration delays costing schools

Relief teachers have been called in to plug the gaps left in classrooms by new staff who have been hired but had their approval to teach stalled.

  • Alex Crowe
Year 1 students at Docklands Primary School and the new classroom phonics way of learning.

Phonic boom: The new, faster test for checking youngsters’ reading skills

Six-year-olds across Victoria will have reading skills put to the test this year with a new phonics check, which will help catch struggling students sooner.

  • Caroline Schelle
Prep and year 1 students will no longer sit the English Online Interview.

‘Not fit for purpose’ reading test scrapped for new phonics-based check

A mandatory reading ability test for Victoria’s prep and year 1 pupils that faced criticism over its suitability is being scrapped at the end of this school year.

  • Caroline Schelle

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