I want their voices heard : Assault survivors to speak at consent roundtable smh.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from smh.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Paulin Hanson s One Nation celebrated the defeat of critical race theory on social media last month (Image: AAP/Lukas Koch)
Pressure is mounting on the body developing a new national curriculum as politicians and interest groups try to frame changes introduced in a draft (including the inclusion of more Indigenous culture and problem-solving) as “woke activists” teaching children to “hate Australia”.
In mid-2020, the federal and state education ministers commissioned a review for “refining, realigning and decluttering” the content of the curriculum for preschool to year 10.
The Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) produced a draft with a number of changes, including: teaching mathematics that prioritised problem-solving; introducing digital literacy education earlier on; and, in what was always set to draw attention, including more First Nations culture while replacing references to “Christian heritage” with terms such as “secular�
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What s the point of schooling?
real life?’
The reason we hate this question is, of course, that we teach many things in school that do not have a practical purpose for most people. You don’t analyse the themes of
Macbeth or learn calculus because you’re necessarily going to use them when you leave school. You learn these things because someone, somewhere, has decided that education has an inherent value, and that learning these things will enrich your life.
Whether they do enrich your life, well, is a different question. (I do quote Shakespeare almost daily, but I acknowledge I’m probably an outlier.)
Queensland teachers call for overhaul of NAPLAN tests
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Queensland Teachersâ Union members are calling for an overhaul, or even a halt, of NAPLAN as parents consider taking their children out of this yearâs tests.
Year 3, 5 and 9 students across 1700 Queensland schools will sit NAPLAN, which tests reading, writing, language and numeracy nationally, from Tuesday.
The national NAPLAN system has been labelled âbrokenâ.
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Assessments were cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This year, 70 per cent of schools in Australia, including 1151 Queensland schools, will participate in NAPLAN Online.