A steep decline in how NSW students perform compared to their international peers has sent education experts and government ministers looking to Canada for answers | natassiazc
A steep decline in how NSW students perform compared to their international peers has sent education experts and government ministers looking to Canada for answers.
NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell on Wednesday said Canada was a similar jurisdiction, "but they are much better performers than us on every measure in PISA, as well as other testing regimes. It's important that we look at what they're doing".PISA national project manager Sue Thomson said a key difference was Canada had focused on lifting the performance of its disadvantaged students.
"We need to look at how we lift the performance of kids in the lowest socio-economic quartile [in Australia], because they’re the ones really lagging behind," Dr Thomson said. "Their federal government has virtually no role in school education. Each province is finding their own and different way. In Ontario, they have much more well established networks to share effective practice than most parts of Australia," he said.
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