Students are struggling and so are teachers.
That’s the conclusion of a scathing review into Australia’s education sector with the number of students failing literacy and numeracy standards not budging despite extra funding being pumped into schools.
The Productivity Commission review of the National School Reform Agreement found almost 90,000 students each year failed to meet minimum reading or numeracy standards.
Indigenous students were three times more likely to fall behind at school, the report found, as were those with parents who had lower levels of education.
Commissioner Natalie Siegel-Brown recommended Australian governments commit to firm literacy and numeracy targets to lift results….