FEDERAL-STATE FUNDING
Schools funding lacks three Rs
SMH,
31 Mar. 2010
There is no logic in the way the
federal and state governments divide the responsibility for funding
schools...
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Asia literacy funding needed
The Australian, 22 Mar. 2010
THE Rudd government's priority to
incorporate Asia in the new national school curriculum will only work if
the states and territories inject massive funding to equip teachers...
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Is the national curriculum overdue, or spoiled by
political correctness?
SMH,
22 Mar. 2010
A necessary and long overdue step
in education reform in Australia or the further entrenchment of a
politically correct agenda in our primary and secondary schools?
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Furore over 'inaccurate' schools index
SMH, 18 Apr. 2010
Principals have identified flaws in
the way the federal government compares school performance and social
disadvantage on its My School website...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Changes to My School on the table
The Age, 20 Mar. 2010
THE federal government's chief
education authority is considering changes to the controversial My
School website....
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Teachers give poor marks to national curriculum
SMH, 12 Mar. 2010
TEACHERS believe the new draft
national curriculum represents a step backwards for NSW students in
science and English, little improvement in maths and is unworkable in
history...
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Nobel winner Marshall attacks science curriculum
The
West Australian, 8 Mar. 2010
WA Nobel Prize laureate Barry
Marshall has expressed concerns about the draft national curriculum for
science, saying parts of it are vague...
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Tas
schools test-drive curriculum
ABC News, 4 Mar. 2010
More than a dozen schools in
Tasmania have been chosen to test-drive the Federal Government's draft
national curriculum:
Sacred
Heart
Campbell Street Primary
St Michael's Collegiate
Spreyton Primary
Kingston High
Rose Bay High
Penguin High
Penguin Primary
Friends'
St Aloysious
Riverside High
Riana Primary
St Leonards Primary
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
New maths curriculum a feeble tool calculated to bore
SMH, 4 Mar. 2010
As maths lecturers deeply
dissatisfied with the state of Australian education, we were keen to see
what would emerge...
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Making history in the classroom
The Australian, 4 Mar. 2010
The national curriculum differs
most markedly in history and English, which contain new directions...
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
A sound beginning
Sydney Morning Herald 2 Mar. 2010
English teaching will be stripped
''back to basics''; maths will be scaled back...
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