A draft report into how to improve the West Australian public high school system has found more needs to be done to make education accessible for all students, and that changes to the ATAR pathway could be the key.

But in making it more accessible, are we lowering standards?

Julie-anne Sprague talks to Curtin University School of Education Senior lecturer Saul Karnovsky about the possibility of including more subjects in ATARS, and whether or not it’s simply pandering to a generation who don’t want to tackle more complex problems.

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