Quality early education key to lifting numeracy standards
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The importance of high-quality early education in setting children up for lifelong learning is well known but when it comes to mathematics, it is equally obvious Australian students are falling significantly behind.
One of the main reasons for Australian students’ poor performance has just been revealed – some students are unable to recognise numbers higher than 10 or to write letters of the alphabet when they start primary school.
New research, which shows students are unable to do simple addition or read basic words when they start kindergarten, highlights just how important quality early learning is.
Quality early education key to lifting numeracy standards
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Former premier warns teaching profession facing crisis, change urgently needed
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The NSW public school system is in crisis, an independent inquiry warns, and its approach to teachers needs a significant reset to give better support amid too much red tape, poor workforce planning and constant change.
Geoff Gallop, a former West Australian Labor premier, who was commissioned by the NSW Teachers Federation to chair the inquiry into the changes to the profession over the past 16 years, said teachers were being failed by their workplace.