Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne said the method, used at the indigenous settlement of Aurukun on Cape York, should be rolled out in disadvantaged communities across the country because it ...

One of the most vigorous continuing debates in elementary education is over which teaching method produces the best results. Is it teacher-directed learning, where the teacher conveys knowledge to his ...

Schools using Direct Instruction, a teaching method sometimes criticized for its tightly scripted teaching lessons, are generally seeing gains in student learning, according to a new package of ...

Mr Pearson said the Australian Education Union “could not be more against the interests of children’’. “They are oblivious, or completely blind, to the evidence about what’s effective in education, ...

THE State Government has listened to a determined Aurukun Council, announcing a review of the Direct Instruction teaching method used at the town’s school. In a move that has already prompted ...

A former principal of Aurukun's school in far north Queensland has defended Noel Pearson's controversial teaching model, saying there has been a dramatic improvement since its introduction. Direct ...

Debate is raging over whether the Queensland government will take back the running of a school in the state's far north. The Cape York Academy, led by Indigenous academic Noel Pearson, took over the ...

Aurukun’s Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy campus focuses on the five C’s: Class (literacy and numeracy), Club (sport and the arts), Culture (traditional language), Community (getting parents ...