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Quitting NAPLAN would be a fail for Australian education
Opponents of standardised national testing ignore the international evidence that greater transparency improves school systems performance.
Glenn FaheyContributorAustralia’s education system would be worse off without NAPLAN. Yet a new report proposes replacing the standardised, national assessment with an array of teacher-selected ones.
That’s despite multiple independent reviews consistently handing down recommendations to keep, but continually develop, the national assessment. Successive reports have confirmed NAPLAN is highly valued by educators and parents alike.
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