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This report provides the full set of results from the 2009 national literacy and numeracy tests (NAPLAN) that were conducted across Australia.

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ABC Radio National's podcasts on education are published on this website. EdPod presents a mix of education stories, from early childhood to the end of secondary school. EdPod examines new education ideas, and asks whether things could or should be done differently. The audio for each program is available to download. Users may also subscribe to the podcast feed.

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The report is a synthesis of recent Australian and international research on the attitudes of teachers, students and parents to teaching as a career. The research shows that, while people who have chosen teaching as a career are chiefly motivated by 'intrinsic' rewards such as wanting to 'make a difference', enjoyment of children, etc, extrinsic factors such as remuneration, workload, employment conditions and status are the most significant factors influencing people not to choose teaching, and to leave the profession.

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In April 1999, State, Territory and Commonwealth Ministers of Education met as the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) in Adelaide. At that meeting, Ministers endorsed a new set of National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century. The new goals were released in April 1999 as The Adelaide Declaration (1999) on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century. The Adelaide Declaration (1999) arose from a Discussion Paper (1998) reviewing The Hobart Declaration (1989) and supersedes these earlier documents.

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In June 2005, the Australian Government commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), led by Professor Geoff Masters, to investigate and report on models for an Australian Certificate of Education. The report of this investigation is now available for download. The report analyses different models for a national certificate and sets out a clear proposal for an Australian Certificate of Education that would be available to all senior secondary school students, regardless of where they live in Australia.

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The Australian Curriculum consultation portal allows registered users to review and comment on the draft K-10 Australian Curriculum.

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Australian Educational Computing is the journal of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE).

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The purpose of the The Australian History Summit is to research ways of strengthening the place and maintaining the integrity of Australian history in the school curriculum. There are two papers for consideration: one on what is currently set to be taught in primary and secondary schools, and one on the rationale for, and outline of, a narrative approach to Australian History in schools. The Australian History Summit discussion papers are available for download, as well as the media release and the list of participants.

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The Australian School Science Education National Action Plan 2008-2012 is the outcome of a project to map key school science initiatives across the country, to identify gaps and recommend actions to improve science education. It has been presented to state and territory education authorities with the aim of achieving agreement about priority actions to be pursued through national collaborative efforts. The report, in two voumes, is available to download.

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This review of research into the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills to students with learning difficulties asserts that there is no one single instructional method that deserves sole claim to being 'best practice.' Instead, the common wisdom of research points to the need for balanced approaches to accommodate the diverse needs of students. The report examines what contemporary research, largely meta-analyses from the field of educational psychology, says about the often controversial and much debated field of how best to teach basic literacy and numeracy skills to students with learning difficulties. It identifies current limitations in Australian research and calls for some changes in teacher training.