Almost a third of children could fall below new NAPLAN proficiency standards after an overhaul of the national assessment designed to bring Australian kids in line with their international counterparts.
Education experts say a bold new school funding proposal would cost an extra $8 billion a year but boost equity and achievement.
An education expert says schools that broadly prioritise wellbeing over academic instruction could be going too far.
Melbourne principals discuss the long road to turning around their struggling schools,where “kids liked going ... for the wrong reasons”.
Some of the state’s schools including Riverbank Public,Knox Grammar and Malek Fahd are now bigger than many country towns.
Years of NAPLAN data reveal a decline in Australian students’ writing skills and one researcher argues the test itself is contributing to the problem.
Students will sit NAPLAN tests this week,with the 10-band assessment of their literacy and numeracy skills to be replaced by a simpler four-band measure.
Under a radical overhaul for NAPLAN report cards,the existing 10-band assessment of literacy and numeracy skills will be dumped.
Many top schools ask students to provide their NAPLAN results when enrolling,but should children be cramming for a test described as an “epic waste of time”?
Put your literacy and numeracy skills to the test with this mock NAPLAN quiz.
While advantaged schools made up more than 90 per cent of the top performers,dozens of schools across NSW have defied that trend to punch above their weight in reading,writing and maths results.