The plan to start testing year 1 students on reading, maths

By Judith Ireland
Updated October 14 2017 - 9:43am, first published September 20 2017 - 2:39pm
NEWS-AFR  For Australian Financial Review -  Jennifer Buckingham, Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies with Raymond Terrace Public School.
Photo by PHIL HEARNE  Wednesday 10th December 2014.
NEWS-AFR For Australian Financial Review - Jennifer Buckingham, Research Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies with Raymond Terrace Public School. Photo by PHIL HEARNE Wednesday 10th December 2014.

All year one students would undergo national tests in reading and maths under a federal government proposal.