Keywords: Australian Curriculum
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 10 February 2009
8 Comments
Many of the things that impact upon a teacher's efficacy are beyond their control - the quality of a child's homelife, the politicisation of the curriculum. One thing they can control is much they care, though this may bring new teachers little comfort in the months ahead.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 19 November 2008
9 Comments
Forcing schools to produce information on students' exam performance will never be a reliable strategy for lifting numeracy and literacy. Learning is as much about taking risks and failing as it is about getting the answers right the first time.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What is Germaine to her personality? .. Her Catholic childhood I fear.
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AUSTRALIA
- Greg O'Kelly
- 02 April 2007
3 Comments
Australia is ranked 29th internationally in the teaching of maths and science. To suggest that a national curriculum would raise such a ranking is a non sequitur. Curriculum is about content. It's standards that refer to performance measurement.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 21 August 2006
If the Federal Government is serious about history, it should be devoting as much time to having us understand the history of our neighbours, and having our neighbours understand our sense of our own. It's mostly virgin territory.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Matthew Lamb looks at Stuart Macintyre’s The historian’s conscience.
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