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Teaching gobbledygook

Toss out the national curriculum

8 May 2021

9:00 AM

8 May 2021

9:00 AM

When David de Carvalho, CEO of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) announced that he had given the national curriculum the ‘Marie Kondo’ treatment, he raised hopes. Had ACARA really thrown out all the meaningless mumbo jumbo? It seemed unlikely.

ACARA is a creation of the Rudd government, imbued with the Jacobin spirit of centralised social engineering.

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