NAPLAN doing as much damage as the cane
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NAPLAN doing as much damage as the cane
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Education by Elissa Lawrence
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Subscriber only Not that long ago, teachers got out a cane and struck their students. It was the culture of the day. It was normal. Now, more enlightened as we are, we look back in dismay at this era of corporal punishment in schools. High school teacher and author Brendan Murray believes future generations, in turn, will look back on our current obsession with data, the standardised testing of NAPLAN (National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy) and ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) in much the same way. Murray says the Australian educational system is now fixated on numbers to the extent there is a risk of the humanity of the students becoming invisible .