Well done, MrCentury. It will be interesting to see the response.

19% 21%, what is the bloody difference, grade 4's can't read, full stop. They should ALL be able to read.
Teachers pull your fingers out ! After all, you have a pretty strong Unoion when you want a payrise, so how about using that Union to get better teaching enabled ?

Mr 100,

http://www.teachermagazine.com.au/articles/pirls-2016-year-4-reading-and-literacy-results

Fixed it for you, no reflection on your computer skills but rather on OLO's dislike of the 's' in 'http'; it's just an OLO thing that we must live with.

Individual- your post demonstrates perhaps an antagonistic approach and a misunderstanding of the problem. If more than 80% are succeeding that is a far cry from "grade 4's can't read, full stop." There are many factors (mentioned in the reports) which can influence non-achievement of an intermediate standard which tend to reflect societal influence more than teacher impact. The antagonistic approach that many seem to display must be inspired by people willfully mis-reading the data.
Pay rises for teachers- you mean trying to keep in line with CPI?
& Funny that the unions tried hard to get the first Gonski deal to go through which would have seen funding increase dramatically to help support the very types of programs and teacher training and development based around increasing numeracy and literacy, instead of the new Gonski 2.0 which basically gutted all that. So individual, were you onboard with Gonski 1.0 (or even know what it was)?
And cheers Is Mise

And just for you individual,
Just read some of the released NAPLAN results in meeting Reading benchmark- look at those percentages
year 3s: ACT- 97%, NSW, Vic and QLD- 96%
year 9s: ACT- 97%, NSW and Vic- 94%, QLD, SA and Tas- 92%
Even though NAPLAN could be considered controversial...

Mr Century,
There's no point in debating real problems with people who benefit from the problem.