EduResearch Matters August 29 2024 by Sophie Rudolph
It’s not the results of NAPLAN that are the problem. It is NAPLAN testing itself. These standardised tests contribute to the maintenance of a deeply unequal system…A different possible solution to the problem is to abolish standardised testing and the MySchool website and undo the market based system of schooling. If we are serious about addressing academic achievement, mental wellbeing, poverty, racial discrimination and global warming we must build an education system that is anti-colonial and anti-capitalist. This requires abolishing harmful systems of competition, extraction, accumulation and corporate growth and investing in systems of deep care for, in Jason Hickel’s words, ‘human needs (use-value) through de-accumulation, de-enclosure and de-commodification.’
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