Australian teenagers are more likely to feel unsafe and bullied at school than their international peers,while schoolgirls are highly anxious without their digital devices.
Australian students do not listen to teachers and are distracted by digital devices in classrooms full of noise and disorder,according to the latest international report card.
NSW students performed strongly in international testing in science. This northern Sydney school shares its strategy.
Concerning academic results have emerged for the nation and Victoria,where the proportion of low performers in maths has hit 26 per cent – the highest on record.
These high school students are signing up for extra tutoring classes to get ahead in key subject areas including maths,English and science.
A sweeping overhaul of the state’s mathematics syllabus will be rolled out in all NSW schools from next year as part of a drive to channel more students into calculus-based advanced and extension HSC courses.
Experts say teachers must adopt explicit approaches to teaching numeracy and literacy in primary school to address the results.
New reviews must seek to tackle both our immediate pains and our long-term aspirations for our children.
If federal Education Minister Jason Clare has one goal this term,it should be making sure all of our kids can read.
Girls involvement in higher-level STEM subjects is broadly declining. But at all-girls schools,the trend is reversed.
Close to 5 per cent of Australian International Baccalaureate graduates received a perfect score last year,compared with 0.09 per cent of VCE graduates.