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A major study benchmarking the nation’s science curriculum against seven comparable countries shows Australia has half the content of other education systems.

‘Shockingly poor’: How Australia’s curriculum fails students

The nation’s school science curriculum sets students up for failure against top-performing countries. And Victoria’s is even worse.

  • Robyn Grace and Lucy Carroll

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Year 7 Trinity Grammar School students Kai Pham 12yrs, Max France 13 yrs and Kobe Manu 13yrs draw using pastels during art class.

Experts wanted to declutter the curriculum. Art teachers say they ripped the guts out of it

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”.

  • Christopher Harris
NSW Education Minister Prue Car.

‘Rushed’ curriculum reforms axed, teachers told to focus on English, maths

The NSW government has delayed planned changes for multiple subjects to allow teachers to focus on “core learning”.

  • Lucy Carroll
Michelle Tamaro and her daughter Aria who will start kindergarten at St Patrick’s in North Parramatta on Tuesday.

The changes coming to the new primary school curriculum this week

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.

  • Lucy Carroll and Mary Ward
Teacher Matt Garrett with his year 4 students at Northholm Grammar School

‘Incredibly loose’: The real problem with Australia’s school curriculum

Australians love a curriculum debate but there’s one element that everyone ignores, at a significant cost to students, experts say.

  • Jordan Baker
Grammar, punctuation and syntax will be a major focus of the new English syllabus

English teachers told to focus on grammar, punctuation as writing declines

English teachers will have to teach grammar and punctuation under a draft syllabus, but some are not happy.

  • Jordan Baker
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(l-r) Paul Martin, CEO, NESA, David de Carvalho, CEO, ACARA and Dr Joanne Hack, Head of Curriculum and Assessment, Catholic Schools NSW. The Sydney Morning Herald School summit. Sydney, 1 March, 2022. Photo: Rhett Wyman/SMH

National curriculum wars important to ensure the best outcome for kids: ACARA boss

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.

  • Lisa Visentin
The school curriculum is set for an overhaul.

Christian and Western heritage elevated in revised national curriculum

A new draft removes references to the Anzac legend as ‘contested’, cements the importance of physics and reverses controversial changes to maths.

  • Jordan Baker
Andrea Christie-David and her six-year-old daughter Anneke Ferry. She is teaching her daughter times tables because she thinks it’s important to know them off by heart.

Sum of all fears: Why Australia’s maths problem is getting worse

A maths war is erupting as traditionalists and progressives argue about what students should know, and the best way to teach them.

  • Jordan Baker
Sam Rogers, age 9, from St Charles Catholic Primary School in Waverley, is tutored in his Math by Fay Ligonis from Super Kids Tutoring.

‘Confused and confusing’: Maths experts say curriculum is faddish and shallow

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”.

  • Jordan Baker and Sarah McPhee

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