Editor's letter: Lessons in the education system

There are few issues that excite (or maybe that should be incite) parents as much as the question of education.

There are few issues that excite (or maybe that should be incite) parents as much as the question of education.

I should know, having recently moved two children from Queensland to NSW, witnessing first-hand the ludicrous differences in curriculum, even year levels, between the two states.

Bring on a national curriculum, I say.

There are in fact many changes afoot in education as schools adapt to new technology and different social dynamics, and Caroline Overington's cover story - her first since joining the magazine - examines the current trend towards "agile learning".

When we first discussed this new teaching model I cast my mind back to other trends in education: Cuisenaire rods for maths, rote learning, phonics and whole-language reading … All I can say is that for most parents (and some teachers too, I imagine), it's all very confusing.