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NAPLAN puts schools in remedial class
The hopes that the $319b Gonski funding revolution would turn around the worst-performing students are turning into one of the great public policy debacles.
Since NAPLAN began in 2008, the annual testing of school students has revealed an unbroken decline or stagnation in classroom performance.
In the results for 2024 this week, one in three students failed to meet the basic benchmarks for literacy and numeracy, and for many of them the chances of catching up were also slim. That’s 450,000 children with damaged futures that neither they nor the country can afford.
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