The Maths Growth Team that mentors other teachers will be reduced as part of a major restructure within the NSW Education Department.
Students from this regional Queensland school are outshining Brisbane schools,while the gap between city and country is narrower in Queensland versus NSW.
Schools catering for gifted kids have an important place in public education,but we have veered well away from this ambition in NSW.
The release of the latest literacy and numeracy results comes amid a stand-off between the federal education minister and his state counterparts over funding.
If our education system’s purpose is to turn students into passive consumers and mindless followers,then it is doing better each year.
When it needs to win back voters,the government looks underpowered.
There is so much that should be done in public schools,but it has to be done with the partnership of teachers,governments and parents.
This year’s NAPLAN results show nearly 30 per cent of Victorian students are struggling with literacy and numeracy,and it hasn’t got better.
Tens of thousands of NSW students have failed to reach the baseline standard in literacy and numeracy tests. Can you answer these year 5 numeracy and year 9 grammar questions correctly?
A West Australian school has been “counselled” after being caught handing out a cheat sheet on the day of the test that monitors Australian student performance.
Two in five of the state’s school students are failing to meet national literacy and maths standards,but new data reveals their classmates are increasingly being withdrawn from the tests altogether.