Victoria’s NAPLAN high achievers for 2023 revealed

Victoria’s NAPLAN high achievers for 2023 revealed

A Mulgrave school where students speak more than 60 languages at home has been identified as a consistently high performer. Search your primary school’s result.

  • byRobyn Grace

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The WA schools with top NAPLAN results revealed

The WA schools with top NAPLAN results revealed

Parents can now view their child’s school NAPLAN results,after the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority released the latest data from 2023 testing on Friday.

  • byHolly Thompson
The high-performing NAPLAN schools revealed

The high-performing NAPLAN schools revealed

Schools as diverse as Fairfield Heights Public,Plumpton High and Abbotsleigh and Newington are among the 100 in NSW to be identified as high achieving in this year’s results.

  • byChristopher Harris
New school targets,funding boost needed to overhaul ‘entrenched’ disadvantage:report

New school targets,funding boost needed to overhaul ‘entrenched’ disadvantage:report

School systems would need to hit higher attendance and NAPLAN targets and provide greater funding transparency,under an expert panel’s proposals to the nation’s education ministers.

  • byLucy Carroll andAngus Thompson
‘The best school money can’t buy’:How a Sydney principal has transformed a once-rough school

‘The best school money can’t buy’:How a Sydney principal has transformed a once-rough school

Noel Dixon is on a mission. He’s changed his school’s teaching method and rolled out a series of ambitious initiatives – and parents are starting to take notice.

  • byLucy Carroll
Ten secrets of success across high-performing NSW schools
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Ten secrets of success across high-performing NSW schools

A new report reveals some of the key practices that stood out from some of the state’s public schools as part of the ambassador schools program.

  • byLucy Carroll
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WA students told not to sit NAPLAN to improve school scores:report

WA students told not to sit NAPLAN to improve school scores:report

WA teachers have reported being directed to request “less able” students to absent themselves from NAPLAN,so the school could maintain or improve its aggregated score.

  • byHolly Thompson
NAPLAN results tell us there’s a major problem. But we may already have the solution
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NAPLAN results tell us there’s a major problem. But we may already have the solution

Narrowing the focus of teaching to literacy and numeracy outcomes in our children’s early years is proving to be detrimental to overall learning.

  • byRichard Evans
How children of CEOs or parents who went to university perform better at school
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How children of CEOs or parents who went to university perform better at school

The children of lawyers and doctors do better at school than those whose parents clean houses or stack shelves. These are the reasons why.

  • byFelicity Caldwell
The eight skills that predict how a child will perform in primary school tests
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The eight skills that predict how a child will perform in primary school tests

An analysis of 2500 students shows children who have some specific skills as they start kindergarten achieve higher results in year 3 NAPLAN tests.

  • byLucy Carroll andRobyn Grace
Single-sex schools have the academic advantage,NAPLAN data reveals

Single-sex schools have the academic advantage,NAPLAN data reveals

A new report reveals single-sex schools across the country perform better academically despite their shrinking proportion of students.

  • byChristopher Harris