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Is the focus on NAPLAN’s ‘top’ schools a good idea?

By Sally Larsen, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of New England

On Wednesday, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority released the school-level results for this year’s NAPLAN tests. This reporting includes scores for years 3, 5, 7 and 9 across literacy and numeracy.

Parents received children’s individual reports in July. Now we can see how individual schools performed.

Parents and the community…

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