National NAPLAN scores show about one third of students across all year levels are not meeting expected benchmarks in reading and maths. Almost 1.3 million students in Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 sat the ...

A gaping class divide is exposed in this year’s English and maths testing, with an increasing gap between star students and struggling classmates. Student performance has gone backwards in remote, ...

Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox called on governments to stop bickering over school reforms and funding, and fix the education system after one in three students performed below ...

One in ten children also need "additional support to progress satisfactorily," this year's findings revealed, while nearly a quarter of the 1.3 million children from 9431 schools who sat the ...

A recommendation made by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority to conduct a targeted review of the foundation to year 2 mathematics curriculum has been accepted by education ...

NAPLAN tests – the literacy and numeracy tests given to primary and secondary students – are causing health problems and promoting a culture of “teaching to the test”. A national study released today ...