It would probably not be an overstatement to say that, apart from the federal education minister, I stand alone taking ...
'We don’t know how to teach our students to write': NAPLAN Writing exposes the truth
My recent article for The Sydney Morning Herald created some interest in the education community by taking a deeply unpopular position and singing the praises of the NAPLAN Writing assessment.
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By Year 9 almost one quarter of all boys and half that many girls do not have the writing skills to progress to the final years of schooling.
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