There are fewer students continuing to study history in Year 12 than ever before. But that doesn’t mean they don’t value it.
- Senior Lecturer in Education, Deakin University
By pushing the timing of approval back to April, likely just before the election, the government has put itself in a position to use the curriculum to score political points.
Australia has been having the same disagreement about what and how history should be taught. We need to move on and listen to the evidence so our children have the best history education possible.
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