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Madonna King

Madonna King: NAPLAN has become the great divider, instead of a useful diagnostic tool

The impact of NAPLAN on our students is telling, writes Madonna King.

To be honest, if my children were whip smart at tying their shoelaces or making their bed in year 3, I would have been doing victory laps of the kitchen bench.

But alas, those skills took another year, or perhaps even two. And that’s the case with many, many children who go on to study medicine or nuclear science or languages or law or whatever else takes hold in their dreams.

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