It’s a question Australian seventh-grade students are being assessed on, but it has left two senior politicians scratching their heads.
“Who wants to wrap up this debate with a little game?” Fordham proposed menacingly, to which they both sheepishly accepted.Ms. Car incorrectly answered $4.15, while Ms. Mitchell took her time and got it right.“So was it mine, Prue,” Ms. Mitchell responded.
Prue Car incorrectly answered a middle-school math question while at a New South Wales State Election debate.While the incumbent education Minister and her challenger were worrying about pears, schools across the nation were sweating bullets as the results of the 2022 NAPLAN tests were released, revealing that migrant students outperformed their peers.
Regarding ninth-grade reading, students with a language other than English background outshone their English-speaking peers, with 7.3 percent achieving a top band result compared to a mere 4.6 percent. And it wasn’t just reading where LOTE students excelled. In ninth grade numeracy, a whopping 11.2 percent of LOTE students aced the top band result, with just 4 percent of their peers doing the same.Share this article:
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