Teachers want clear, succinct and teacher-friendly syllabuses, or road-maps, in key subjects, writes Kevin Donnelly.Has Australia’s curriculum been dumbed down? Not so, according to Ms Pat Byrne, president of the Australian Education Union. In a speech given at the AEU’s federal conference earlier this year, Ms Byrne argues that any talk of falling standards is simply a ploy to disguise the fact that public education, in her judgement, is under-resourced and under-funded.Ms Byrne is especially c…
