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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Sarah Lansdown

Students not learning basic literacy and numeracy at new public school

The Education Directorate has defended the use of personalised and inquiry-based learning at a school where students were not progressing in foundational literacy skills.

Margaret Hendry School had two directorate support programs since it opened in 2019 but was the subject of a special purpose review in June this year after it was unable to sustain the improvements.

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