Education by Christopher Harris
Premium Content  HSC students were marked down in their English exams and assessments because their work did not conform to teachers social values around cultural appropriation and gender stereotyping. Education experts say the exams have been hijacked by activist markers unfairly Âapplying their own progressive judgments about what is culturally appropriate in students work. Feedback from the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) released this week said students could improve by considering appropriate concepts that have cultural sensitivity and are relevant to current times and avoiding cultural appropriations that rely on familiar or offensive stereotypes .  That is despite the student and school remaining anonymous to the marker.
Education by Christopher Harris
Premium Content  HSC students were marked down in their English exams and assessments because their work did not conform to teachers social values around cultural appropriation and gender stereotyping. Education experts say the exams have been hijacked by activist markers unfairly Âapplying their own progressive judgments about what is culturally appropriate in students work. Feedback from the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) released this week said students could improve by considering appropriate concepts that have cultural sensitivity and are relevant to current times and avoiding cultural appropriations that rely on familiar or offensive stereotypes .  That is despite the student and school remaining anonymous to the marker.
Education by Christopher Harris
Premium Content  HSC students were marked down in their English exams and assessments because their work did not conform to teachers social values around cultural appropriation and gender stereotyping. Education experts say the exams have been hijacked by activist markers unfairly Âapplying their own progressive judgments about what is culturally appropriate in students work. Feedback from the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) released this week said students could improve by considering appropriate concepts that have cultural sensitivity and are relevant to current times and avoiding cultural appropriations that rely on familiar or offensive stereotypes .  That is despite the student and school remaining anonymous to the marker.
by Christopher Harris
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Subscriber only Thousands of primary school students will spend their summer holidays at coaching colleges grappling with tricky logic questions introduced in an overhaul of NSW selective school tests. The long awaited official practice test was released to parents on Friday, sending tutoring companies scrambling to finetune their school holiday curriculum. About 15,000 Year 5 students are expected to sit the selective high school exam next March but competition will be fierce with only 4226 positions on offer for Year 7 entry in 2022. The government announced in October it would revamp the entrance exam in a bid to make the test more challenging so the smartest students, not just the most tutored, gain entry into selective schools such as James Ruse Agricultural College.