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NSW Education Standards Authority chief executive Paul Martin said he believed the idea, where students progress through school according to their ability rather than their age, had merit but implementing it next year “was too radical for the moment”.
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A tool to track how students across NSW perform in NAPLAN compared with household incomes and unemployment rates has found that some of the best-performing suburbs in Sydney are in the middle or lower end of the earnings scale.
Household income in Hurstville in southern Sydney is less than $1800 a week, but the suburbâs year 3 students do just as well in NAPLAN as those from Turramurra and Hunters Hill.
The average weekly income in Byron Bay increased by $800 over a decade, but, contrary to conventional wisdom that more advantage leads to better educational outcomes, its NAPLAN results went down.
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It s a straightforward question with a contentious history and no consensus on an answer.
Yet as states and territories begin to phase out school banking programs (think Dollarmites), some experts are saying there needs to be a dedicated model to teach our youth just how to handle their money.
English, science . personal finance?
For Jai and Marlies Hobbs, the problem is clear: Australians, particularly kids, don t understand the fundamentals of money.