The clues that could explain our falling maths marks

By Alexandra Smith
Updated December 12 2017 - 9:48am, first published December 6 2017 - 9:54pm

Australia's "misplaced reliance" on parental choice and competition between public and private schools may have created the conditions for declining student performance, warns a new paper investigating the "unsolved mystery" of worsening test scores.

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