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One quarter of Australian 11-12 year olds don't have the literacy and numeracy skills they need

  • Written by Sergio Macklin, Deputy Lead of Education Policy, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Children from disadvantaged backgrounds, very remote areas, and Indigenous Australians are up to two times more likely to start school developmentally vulnerable than the national average.

In 2018, 21.7% of Australian five year olds (70,308 children) were not developmentally ready when they started school. And in Year 7, nearly 25% of...

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