Australia’s schoolkids are performing at a record low standard in reading, maths and science despite a $20bn boost in funding.
found student performance has declined by the equivalent of more than a full school year in maths and almost a full year in reading and science.
“We are a developed, wealthy western country with justifiably high aspirations for our students so we must take notice of these results,” Dr Thomson said.“We have observed continuing falls in our results since PISA began in 2000 and yet again the data tells us we have failed to lift our performance. The report also notes a significant maths performance gender gap in favour of boys has returned, despite being closed in 2015.
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