Sue Foster and Francesca Beddie show that literacy and numeracy practices change over time, and that the literacy challenge is not confined to those people traditionally considered to be poorly educated or unsuccessful. They consider Australia's place in the international arena, and look at strategies for integrating literacy into unconventional learning environments and at ways...

Indigenous Australian children begin school with similar levels of literacy and numeracy to their non-Indigenous classmates but fall behind as they move through the early years, according to this report by Tracey Frigo, Matthew Corrigan, Isabelle Adams, Paul Hughes, Maria Stephens and Davina Woods. The study identifies initial achievement, attendance, attentiveness in class, language background...

A change of education policy in South Australia allowed Chris Ryan to study the impact of an additional year of junior primary school on student achievement. It appears that the extra year increased numeracy and literacy performance in mid-secondary school significantly, among boys and girls and across ability levels.

This report examines the influence of a range of factors on the literacy and numeracy achievement levels of Year 9 students in Australia. The data are from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), which studies the progress of cohorts of young Australians as they make the transition from school to work and further education...

The emphasis on monitoring student educational outcomes Australia-wide through state-wide testing has generated a wealth of data which has enabled systems to monitor the extent of educational inequities experienced by Indigenous students. Despite some improvements over time, national schools statistics point to a continuing gap in the average English literacy and numeracy achievement of Indigenous...