![]() ![]() I think we need to zero in on that and look at what we can do using the funding we've got, to make sure we target it better to help those children. What I'm particularly concerned about is making sure that we don't see that gap between children from poorer backgrounds and children from wealthier backgrounds getting bigger. ![]() The National School Reform Agreement that will kick off next year will be focused on who pays to get to that 100 per cent level and what does it get spent on. Government schools are tracking upwards but on current trajectory won't get to that 100 per cent. At the moment, non‑government schools are tracking downwards towards that 100 per cent level by the end of the decade. Is that a priority for you in these financially constrained times?ĬLARE: We committed, as you said, Sabra, at the last election to making sure that all schools were on a pathway to getting their full and fair funding. Labor has promised to ensure that every public school receives 100 per cent of their schooling resource standard, which allows for more funding for poorer students and those from non‑English speaking backgrounds. You're the product of a public education. An even bigger concern for me is that the gap between the reading skills and the maths skills of children from poor backgrounds and children from wealthier backgrounds is getting bigger. The reading and maths skills of high school students is about the same as it was 14 years ago. One, that we don't see that carry on into high school. What I'm concerned about I guess are two things. We see similar results when it comes to maths at primary school as well. Now that's something that we should be celebrating. If you have a look at the reading skills of primary school students, primary school students are on average a year ahead of primary school students' reading capability 14 years ago. But it does help us to better understand what's happening in our schools and how our students are performing. NAPLAN doesn't measure that it's not intended to measure that. One of the things that we know has happened over the last few years is that the mental health and the wellbeing of young people has been smashed by COVID. I think it's important to make that point. What do you think?ĬLARE: NAPLAN doesn't tell us everything. LANE: Do you still think that there is value in holding these NAPLAN tests? The Education Union has previously said that the tests aren't valuable anymore and that they should go. So that may account for it, but that's only one of the reasons, I suspect, why we're seeing a difference there. Whereas in other jurisdictions students are not encouraged to prepare. So, in WA, you tend to see students studying harder for NAPLAN because it counts. Is that a lesson perhaps for other States?ĬLARE: I asked this question of the team that put NAPLAN together and they tell me that in WA your results in NAPLAN for Year 9 count towards qualifications in Year 10, Year 11 and 12. Year 10 students, people who want to sit beyond Year 9, have to sit an extra exam if they want to go on to Year 12. LANE: Just on the Year 9 results, though, it was an interesting result for Western Australia. NAPLAN tells us what's happening, but it doesn't tell us why, and I think we need to drill down into that. We've certainly seen a trend down over the last couple of years there. That's a tribute to the incredible work of teachers and parents and students out there.īut in that story, Gabriella did make the point that we're seeing a trend down in Year 9 students, particularly boys, but we're seeing it in girls as well. They're similar to what we saw in 2019 before COVID. And across most of the categories, the results are stable. These are the first NAPLAN results since those big lockdowns in New South Wales and Victoria last year. LANE: Were you surprised by these results?ĬLARE: To be honest they're better than I expected. JASON CLARE, MINISTER FOR EDUCATION: Good morning, Sabra. SABRA LANE: The Federal Education Minister Jason Clare joins me now. SUBJECTS: NAPLAN results funding for schools teacher shortages. ![]()
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