It doesn’t take a university degree in education to recognise a connection between a dismal classroom environment and poor academic results, with the most recent OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) confirming Australia is seriously deficient in both.
The most recent PISA results reveal, incredibly, half our pupils failed to reach proficiency standards in maths and 43 per cent failed to reach proficiency in reading.
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