NAPLAN

So those types of measures, we'll be waiting for the census data, which we're really excited about because it's coming out next year.

Other data like NAPLAN and things are collected annually, so it's a bit of a mix.

Next year, actually, we'll release that report at the end of next year, and that will be the first time we've had all measures available because I think about maybe 30% are from the census.

So that will be a really interesting time to see how things have shifted, particularly because the last census was during COVID.

How can we ensure that how children and young people are tracking is out there and that people actually know about it? When I talk about public schools being funded to that absolute dismal number, which I think is still under 2%, people are absolutely shocked and people cannot believe it.

So how can we not be investing in... our most precious resource, you know, the next generation who are going to grow.

So, and we're seeing, you know, NAPLAN data go backwards and things.

Well, is it surprising that if we're not investing in it and we really seem to have accepted this idea of, Public schools being derelict.

The Sydney Morning Herald has this story today.

They report that word has spread quickly on the North Shore and prospective parents are now less interested in NAPLAN and HSC results and more keen on the discipline and respect learned through this program.

Although you could argue that they kind of work hand in hand.

Principal Chand hatched this idea for the cleaning policy two years ago when he visited a Japanese high school where students mop the floors.

The nation's economists also state that buyers will continue to withhold until the RBA assumes a different rate, which is unlikely to happen until late next year.

In an attempt to curtail criticism of tech use in classrooms, education ministers have issued a return to written pen and paper NAPLAN tests for Year 5 students from 2028.

The National Assessment Programme Literacy and Numeracy, also known as NAPLAN, assesses students on fundamental knowledge in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.

However, this testing has indicated a downward trend over recent years.

with many educators frustrated with poor test scores.

But I think we – part of the reason in Australia for problems with proficiency in maths or numeracy are that we have started – we've – prioritise the problems over their processes.

And when I look at, you'd be familiar with NAPLAN, our National Assessment Program.

So it stands for National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy.

And it's administered in years three, five, seven and nine.

Connor, we're both dads, and I think we've both been surprised, really, at the infiltration of screens in our children's classrooms.

How did we come to accept this as the status quo all the while when NAPLAN results have been backsliding?

Yeah, that's right.

Look, Education Minister Jason Clare is calling it actually a reckoning against screen time in education.

I think basically what happened, Andy, is that 20 years ago, as far back as the Rudd government, there was a real worry that kids would be left behind if they didn't have screens and we didn't have technology in the classroom.

And now the evidence is saying that that actually has contributed to these kids being left behind in their learning too, as you mentioned earlier.

the NAPLAN scores and a bunch of other really concerning markers.

Education Minister Jason Clare says the evidence now shows that students retain information much better when they write something down rather than type it.