NAPLAN results: Major education system overhaul after grammar, punctuation, ... trends now
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Ailing literacy skills across Australia has triggered a major overhaul of one state's education system with grammar and punctuation the areas most in need of improvement.
The English syllabus has been redesigned in a bid to improve the literacy skills of NSW students in Years 3 to 10 following a 10 year decline.
Grammar, punctuation and sentence structure will be at the heart of the new curriculum to help students better express complex ideas and clear sentences.
A new mathematics curriculum is also due to be released this week and will focus on improving students' sequencing and reasoning skills.
The NSW syllabus refresh follows dismal NAPLAN results this year, which saw the literacy skills of teenage boys plummet to record lows.
One in six boys failed to meet the minimum standard in grammar and punctuation while 12 per cent could barely read at a basic
