With the worst kids asked to stay home the results are actually worse.


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-14/naplan-results-2024-revealed/104205514

NAPLAN results reveal one in three students not meeting
basic literacy and numeracy expectations

By national education and parenting reporter Conor Duffy and the Specialist Reporting Team's Evan Young

updated 2h ago

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In short:

National NAPLAN scores show one in three Australian school students is performing below literacy and numeracy benchmarks.

Almost 1.3 million students in Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 sat the annual test earlier this year.
What's next?

Experts say action is needed, with the Commonwealth currently locked in negotiations with states and territories for a new decade-long agreement for public school funding.

One in three Australian school students is not meeting literacy and numeracy benchmarks, and more than one in ten need additional support, the 2024 NAPLAN results show.

"In plain English, one third of Australia's children are not on track with their learning," the Grattan Institute's education director Jordana Hunter said.

Experts say the scores demonstrate the urgent need for classroom reforms, otherwise a significant part of a generation looks set to miss out on crucial foundational learning.

"It's almost half a million students around the country that are not where we need them to be," Dr Hunter said.

"The NAPLAN results are sending a pretty clear message. The question I have is 'are education ministers listening?'"


There have previously been anecdotal reports of schools urging students
who were expected to perform poorly to stay home on testing day
to improve the overall marks for the school, and ultimately, the perceived appeal of the school to parents.

It must be poor genetics -

the DNA that John West rejected.

Comment from another forum:

Ah, but they can explain all the different genders, know that diversity is our greatest strength,
that mass third world immigration is good (doubleplusgood, even),
that sovereignty was never ceded by the aboriginals and that white people are the root cause of all evil.
So you can't say they haven't had an "education".
Rather bigoted to suggest that just because they
can't read, write, perform basic math or think for themselves shows otherwise...

Bobby. wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 12:53pm:

It must be poor genetics - the DNA that John West rejected.

Is Australia devolving?

Should the yarmulke guy become Prime Minister?

"Vee haff vays."

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 1:24pm:

Bobby. wrote on Aug 14th, 2024 at 12:53pm: It must be poor genetics - the DNA that John West rejected. Is Australia devolving? Should the yarmulke guy become Prime Minister? "Vee haff vays."

Science fiction has become true:

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You only need to know how to spell one word in a banana republic.

Banana.

Please don't accuse me of being boastful or of being a antiheterophobe.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 1:47pm:

You only need to know how to spell one word in a banana republic. Banana. Please don't accuse me of being boastful or of being a antiheterophobe.

LOL -

communists don't want people capable of critical thinking.
They used to kill intellectuals.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 3:23pm:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 14th, 2024 at 1:47pm: You only need to know how to spell one word in a banana republic. Banana. Please don't accuse me of being boastful or of being a antiheterophobe. LOL - communists don't want people capable of critical thinking. They used to kill intellectuals.

Looking at the Chinese now, the communists might be right.

Perhaps white intellectuals had held Australia back since 1788 when they demanded that all Aboriginals should be exterminated.

If intellectuals had not held Australians back, Australians might have populated the moon and Mars and be on their way to more distant planets.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 5:56pm:

Bobby. wrote on Aug 14th, 2024 at 3:23pm: Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 14th, 2024 at 1:47pm: You only need to know how to spell one word in a banana republic. Banana. Please don't accuse me of being boastful or of being a antiheterophobe. LOL - communists don't want people capable of critical thinking. They used to kill intellectuals. Looking at the Chinese now, the communists might be right. Perhaps white intellectuals had held Australia back since 1788 when they demanded that all Aboriginals should be exterminated. If intellectuals had not held Australians back, Australians might have populated the moon and Mars and be on their way to more distant planets.

Are you smoking something?    :-/

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/disturbing-signs-were-failing-a-whole-generation-of-aussie-kids-especially-boys/news-story/988c9335970e49c2496c986f0f07bc5b

‘Disturbing’ signs we’re failing a whole generation of Aussie kids – especially boys

Australia’s future is hanging in the balance as hundreds of billions dollars seem to have made little difference to a trend experts say is “disturbing”.

August 14, 2024 - 3:12PM


Experts have urged governments to urgently address “sobering and disturbing” school testing results released today — that comes despite more than $600 billion injected into schools over the past decade.

The findings show one-in-three kids have fallen below minimum academic standards and some 400,000 students are struggling so much they need special catch-up tutoring.

The schools sector and experts have reacted with shock to this year’s NAPLAN results, which reveal there has been virtually no progress in critical areas since 2023’s “wake-up call”.


The first ‘Covid generation’

The results for the youngest cohort to sit the test provides a potential clue about the impacts of long and disruptive Covid restrictions.

A “reasonable number” of Year Three students examined displayed struggles with reading proficiency, Jenny Donovan, chief executive of the Australian Education Research Organisation, pointed out.

“This is the cohort of children who were affected by lockdowns in a lot of jurisdictions at the start of their schooling,” Dr Donovan said.

“So, their first important year of learning was probably quite disrupted and we’re still mopping up from that experience.”

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Bobby. wrote on Aug 14^th, 2024 at 1:23pm:

Comment from another forum: Ah, but they can explain all the different genders, know that diversity is our greatest strength, that mass third world immigration is good (doubleplusgood, even), that sovereignty was never ceded by the aboriginals and that white people are the root cause of all evil. So you can't say they haven't had an "education". Rather bigoted to suggest that just because they can't read, write, perform basic math or think for themselves shows otherwise...

Political leanings aside, there's certainly an element of truth in this.

I am part of a multi generational "teacher" family group and regardless of differing political positions, all 3 generations agree on this point; The curriculum content has become so bloated there is simply not enough time allocated per day, per student, for the required English and Mathematics core.
Without getting into arguments over differing methods and their various pros and cons, it shouldn't be beyond reason to acknowledge today's curriculum content is undoubtedly more bloated than in generations past. Combined with the accepted position that "COVID" and decisions taken around schooling during the "Pandemic" had a negative impact, surely now is the time to finally admit, all else aside, more time needs to be dedicated to those core subjects to address the acknowledged loss.

I have no doubt that our teachers are all capable enough to; even with differing methods, engender a turnaround in student proficiency in the core areas if the Education Department simply committed to finding an extra 20 MINUTES PER DAY PER CHILD for those areas. The next few years should be guided by this priority principle in order to address the issue. Continually getting bogged down in method comparison and argument has not brought, is not bringing and will not bring, the turnaround required.

Form your advisory group as required, to debate and argue over what part or parts of the bloated curriculum WILL BE reduced to accommodate the prioritization of finding that extra 20 MINUTES PER DAY PER CHILD, for the core areas required. However it must be the groups remit to identify and implement that singular priority. An extra 20 MINUTES PER DAY, PER CHILD must be found by reducing one or multiple areas of the bloated curriculum to accommodate that non negotiable principle.

We have an educational emergency. That requires an Immediate Temporary Control

I was in the last generation in SA to take Leaving Honors—fifth year high school. I studied Maths I, Maths II, Physics and Chemistry.

The next year fifth year high school students in SA studied 6 or 7 subjects—impossible to study any in depth, no introduction to University where you study 4 subjects a year in first year, less in later years.

Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 15^th, 2024 at 3:13am:

I was in the last generation in SA to take Leaving Honors—fifth year high school. I studied Maths I, Maths II, Physics and Chemistry. The next year fifth year high school students in SA studied 6 or 7 subjects—impossible to study any in depth, no introduction to University where you study 4 subjects a year in first year, less in later years.

Stop trying to live on past supposed glories.

Did your qualifications ever lead to a decent job? -
not that I ever heard of.    :-[