OPINION: Pressed by The Australian Financial Review on what he would do about the continuing fall in Australian student scores, the new education minister says he hasn’t even unpacked his boxes.
Jason Clare’s first act as education minister was to visit his inspirational teacher at his old school in western Sydney.
Incredibly, after pouring tens of billions of dollars of Gonski funding into schools when it was last in office, Labor seems to have nothing to say about the subsequent and Will he wield the power of the federal purse over state governments to make sure kids are instructed in the foundational three Rs, starting with science-backed phonics instruction to learn to read properly? Does he support merit pay to attract and retain the best teachers?What’s his position on classroom discipline to end the chaos in some schools? And what’s his thinking on students taking soft options that avoid the hard science and maths courses needed to train a skilled and productive...
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