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Flat White

Australian schools need a tough love reboot

20 July 2021

4:00 AM

20 July 2021

4:00 AM

Pupils, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. You choose. 

If Australia can’t improve our international K-12 educational standings within 18 months we must extend the school week from five to six days. These changes will be reversed when our students sustain higher grades for two years. Let’s reboot our education systems to increase our global ranking, measured against PISA and other global benchmarks.

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