[etni] Cum laude for the curriculum
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- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:30:17 +0200
Cum laude for the curriculum
The Australian - March 5, 2010
Julia Gillard has prevailed where others failed for 25 years.
THE Hawke, Keating and Howard governments had a proud record of reform in
many areas but, when it comes to the school curriculum, Julia Gillard has
achieved more in two years than her predecessors managed in a quarter of a
century. The draft national curriculum released this week for
kindergarten-to-Year 10 is a major achievement setting out a path for
improved teaching of English, history, mathematics and science. Parents of
children who have left school might wonder why previous governments did not
act instead of talking and dithering.
The Rudd government is promoting the curriculum as "back to basics" and for
once the spin has a solid basis. The English program sets out a good
foundation in phonics, sentence and paragraph construction and grammar. And
while the draft does not nominate set books or poems, it values literature
in all years. Thankfully there is no sign of the nonsense pushed by English
teachers' associations, branding literature study "inherently political" and
advocating "other models of English such as personal growth".
(To read the whole article, go to -
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/cum-laude-for-the-curriculum/story-e6frg71x-1225837140815
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