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Scrapping NAPLAN removes life lessons of failure and comparison
Prizes for everyone! Learning play! 21st Century Skills! Overpaid consultants!It’s clearly not working.The latest move in the destruction of academic sensibility is the call to scrap the NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy) test and the bizarre removal of school comparison data based on NAPLAN results.Australian Education Union president Correna Haythorpe last week demanded the Federal Government axe the annual NAPLAN test as it was “plagued by a lack of credibility”…
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