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Article from The Australian hereThe headmaster of Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) in North Sydney, Tim Wright, told a symposium on a national curriculum in English at the weekend that parents felt alienated from the English syllabus and were deeply cynical about it ( Read more... )

You think it's bad reading students' essays now? It's not going to get any better as the next lot of undergrads enter university. The teachers teaching spelling can't spell themselves.

Article from The Australian Teacher failures spell student troubleA spelling test of about 40 Victorian teachers, conducted in April this year, provides no grounds ( Read more... )

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