Everyone should hope Education Minister Jason Clare can sort out the continuing failure to improve teaching standards.
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It’s true the best teachers use a mix of both approaches, but the obvious decline in literacy rates should have long ago demanded a national rethink of why phonics had been so consistently downgraded over decades. Yet to avoid the inevitable controversy, even David Gonski refused to offer an opinion on the issue in his major report to the Turnbull government in 2018 on how to improve education standards.
Clare notes that only 12 per cent of the content of a four-year education degree is related to teaching literacy and 12 per cent to teaching maths. He also lamentsenrolled in an education degree who fail to finish – compared to the 30 per cent of students overall who drop out of university.
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