Alexandra Smith is Education Editor at the Sydney Morning Herald
A $261 million literacy and numeracy program to help the state's lowest-achieving primary school students had no "measurable impact" on their year 3 NAPLAN results, a new evaluation of the five-year plan reveals.
More than 40 per cent of the 795,000 students in NSW's public schools do not list any religion on their enrolment form, according to new data.
Parent contributions top $500,000 a year at some NSW public schools, with 22 schools earning the same in voluntary fees as 1764 other schools, new data reveals.
Principals are increasingly forced to adjudicate spats on social media that involve "destructive comments" and "electronic abuse" that is hurled between students and parents, who use online forums to attack teachers or complain about their school.
From tired looking demountables to old brick walls and even toilet blocks. Once drab Sydney schools are being transformed into works of art.
Students at NSW public schools are struggling with out-of-date computers and slow wireless networks and the key program that provides technology to all schools has not had a funding increase since 2004 despite soaring enrolments, a new Auditor General's report reveals.
The most sought-after public high schools and their strict catchment areas create a cycle of segregation between "rich" and "poor" schools and students.
Fast forward to 2030 and the children who started school in 2017 will need to be just as skilled in critical thinking, creativity and empathy as they are in literacy and numeracy.
Sydney's north shore suburbs are the state's most advantaged when it comes to education, but Paddington tops the overall list including having among the highest average NAPLAN scores in year 5 reading and numeracy.
Julia Cummins fell in love with the idea of space travel after spending hours stargazing from home with her family's telescope.
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