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Early NAPLAN results show promise, but we don’t know the full impact of COVID school closures yet

  • Written by: Julie Sonnemann, Fellow, School Education, Grattan Institute
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The early NAPLAN results for 2021 released today suggest the average impact of COVID school closures on literacy and numeracy in 2020 has been relatively small.

This was the first NAPLAN test since students moved to remote learning, and involved 1.2 million students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9.

The results show the national average for...

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