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The education elephant in the room: school illiteracy : Comments

By Jo Rogers, published 28/8/2018

Australia has a major problem. UNIFEC rates Australia's Literacy standards as 39th in the world out of 41 countries.

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Anyone who thought all kids were once able to read after two or three years of school back in the 60's could not have been teaching back then. Having done so, I can assure readers that in any cohort of 8 year old children in the 60's and 70's there was a significant number of pupils who either had not begun reading or were reading at a standard below that anticipated. Perhaps falling 'literacy' standards need to be addressed through families, rather than schools. I cannot imagine how one adult working with ten or twenty (or more) children can be as effective as working with a group of parents, showing them how to facilitate their children's literacy from birth (and before). OR given that school success has been consistently shown to be associated with family socio-economic status, then maybe we need to more closely consider the increase in the nation's economic divide since the 1960's.
Posted by WOOLLY, Thursday, 6 September 2018 9:42:07 AM
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