... Leadership Educational planning and administration Curriculum development The disparity in academic performance between “disadvantaged” students and their white counterparts has become the impetus which drives lawmakers, districts, schools and teachers in their attempts to reform educational practices...

... Schools Curricula Curriculum development Australia The continual underperformance of indigenous students throughout Australia remains one of the most pressing issues facing education in this country. Many states have tried to redress this imbalance through school reforms and curriculum change...

... rare, for both the magnitude of the curriculum change and the size of the education system (750,000 students) involved. John McCormick can be contacted at: J.McCormick@unsw.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Educational policy Stress Self assessment Curriculum development...