The Federal Government admits literacy and numeracy skills should of improved fasterer, following ten years of NAPLAN testing.

The preliminary results from tests in May, released Wednesday, show a 2.04% decline in riting skills. Reading has declined too, with many children now unable to maintain the necessary concentration to read to the end of a

Grammar results has also gone backwards since the knew testing was introduced in 2007.

Encouragingly, numeracy levels have actually improved over the last ten years, up by around a third (11%).

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Matthew Bulman

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