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What Australia must do to lift flatlining student scores

This country may have averted the worst of the COVID-era education destruction, that doesn’t mitigate the many flaws in our school system.

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While Australian students have scored a mixed report card in the latest round of international testing, flatlining results in several subjects are concerning.

In new results released today, Australian students in 2022 have recorded a dead heat in maths, science, and reading with their peers in 2018, in the OECD-run Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

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Glenn Fahey is a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, and formerly held research and policy positions with the OECD.

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