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Boosting education opportunities for disadvantaged students

State Schools’ Relief, a Victorian not for profit, has established a partnership with Victorian furniture retailer Schoolfurn, to provide 150 study packages to underprivileged primary and secondary students across the state, so they have a functional space to complete their homework and school assignments at home. Read More

Intervention demonstrates dramatic PAT Maths growth

Startling new peer-reviewed research published by the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia shows student gains of 27-29 months beyond the 24-month department expectations as measured by performance on PAT Maths for the lowest 20 per cent of students across six primary schools in South Australia. Read More
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Transition to NAPLAN online delayed

Following a meeting of Australia’s education ministers, the national online rollout of NAPLAN has been postponed until 2021, after connectivity issues and computer glitches impacted numerous students who took the test online earlier this year. Read More

Video: Answering student NAPLAN questions

Ahead of upcoming 2019 NAPLAN testing in mid-May, Jenny Donovan, Executive Director for the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation at the NSW Department of Education, provides expert advice for
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Are attendance rates the key to achievement?

Lifting attendance rates is often viewed as the key to improving education outcomes for Indigenous students and their peers, but new research by La Trobe University researchers suggests this link may be misleading. Read More