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 ...

Whenever evidence of poor school performance makes the headlines, teachers are invariably blamed. But teachers and school leaders don’t deserve our disrespect, they deserve an apology. We have failed ...

With the new draft curriculum, there is a lot of debate and expert opinion floating around on what it means for school education. What is new and what has been discarded? What does it mean for our ...

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 ...

Jessica Holloway has received funding from the Australian Research Council. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has begun his election campaign with fresh criticism of schools. The Coalition has previously ...

As a symbolic document, a national history curriculum needs to accurately represent the nation’s religious past. (Lincoln Beddoe / iStock / Getty Images) The reality of national curriculum writing is ...

86 per cent of Australian students will never learn about the Rwanda genocide the Cuban missile crisis and the Chernobyl disaster, and this is simply not good enough. This sparked an in-depth ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victoria and NSW are refusing to be bound by a new mandatory component in the national curriculum that proposes to make it compulsory ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian primary and high school students spend nearly 74 per cent more time in the classroom as Finnish students and have the most ...

Growing up Amy McQuire struggled to find herself in picture books about Australia's history. When the Darumbal and South Sea Islander mother searched for Indigenous-centred stories to teach her own ...

“Misinformation can spread so quickly and be so damaging. The Kids News Junior Journalist competition is a fabulous initiative and will help the next generation of storytellers understand the power of ...