Bill Louden represented Western Australia on the Board of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority from 2008 to 2012. The Donnelly-Wiltshire Review of the Australian Curriculum is ...

Australia has a vast array of state and federal policies and programs aimed at improving teacher quality, leadership, literacy and numeracy, and so on. But none of them has moved the needle. Why not?

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Media literacy education aims to help students to participate in the complex digital media environment ...

You’d be forgiven for not having heard about the long-awaited new Australian Curriculum, which was released with little fanfare in the midst of the election campaign. But this update to the national ...

Far too many students are failing to master the fundamental skills and knowledge needed for a well-educated workforce, a successful society and a resilient economy. One in three children failed to ...

Aussie kids are being let down by ‘impossible’ national curriculum with parents fearing they aren’t being taught the basics of reading, writing and maths. The national curriculum has also been accused ...

The national review of school curriculums is at risk of becoming an “amorphous collection of general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities”, while failing to deal with specific problems of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Home-schooling families have launched a fierce campaign against moves by the Queensland government to force them to teach the Australian ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The teaching of Australian history at VCE level is set for an overhaul next year in a bid to attract more students and turn around a ...

A shake-up of Australia’s school curriculum is expected after recommendations are published today. It comes after a 12 month review by the Australian Curriculum Assesment and Reporting Authority aimed ...