The latest NAPLAN results show a ‘significant’ improvement for Indigenous students and students from multicultural backgrounds in reading, writing and numeracy.
Results are proving Indigenous students are improving at a faster rate. Among year three Indigenous students, results improved by 7.4 per cent between 2008 and 2018, compared to 4.2 per cent for non-Indigenous students.
Education Minister Dan Tehan says, “there has been fantastic improvement in the results of Indigenous students but more needs to be done to close the gap, that is why the Morrison Government is making Indigenous education a focus of its efforts”.