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A pioneering study has found adjusting NAPLAN questions to make them culturally relevant to regional and Aboriginal students could close the Indigenous reading gap by 50 per cent and reduce the urban-rural gap by a third.

Instead of getting year 12 students into the classroom to sit HSC trials or exams, the Premier should be prioritising the learning needs of kindergarten and socially disadvantaged students – and working her way up, not down, in terms of her back-to-school plan.

We must rethink the political and ideological factors that have led to inequality in order to achieve a new era of economic justice, says French economist Thomas Piketty.

A tool to track how students across NSW perform in NAPLAN compared with household incomes and unemployment rates has found that some of the best-performing suburbs in Sydney are in the middle or lower end of the earnings scale.