NSW Year 9 students have shot to first place in the nation for numeracy, as well as leading spelling results, following the release of this year’s 2017 NAPLAN tests.

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NSW Year 9 students have shot to first place in the nation for numeracy, as well as leading spelling results, following the release of this year’s 2017 NAPLAN tests.
The South Australian Government will provide a $67.5 million funding boost to public school students to help lift numeracy and literacy results.
The latest NAPLAN results for 2017 show school students’ results have improved slightly since the tests were first introduced.
Up to 48 per cent of educators feel stressed either “most of the time” or “fairly often”, according to a new report.
The Victorian Government has partnered with the Victorian Student Representative Council (VicSRC) to assist in the development of a new online resource centre.
New research suggests that understanding the needs and behaviours of children with diagnoses on the autism spectrum is the most important element for teachers in supporting them in mainstream classrooms.