23 min

Why Australia needs a 'Reading Guarantee‪'‬ Grattan Institute

    • Government

Australia has a reading problem. A third of children can't read proficiently. In the typical Australian school classroom of 24 students, eight can't read well. This has huge flow on effects for their success in life and costs Australia billions of dollars. And the worst thing is, it's preventable.

In this podcast, report authors Jordana Hunter and Anika Stobart discuss The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance for success, and offer a new plan of how to reform reading education in Australia.

Read the report: https://grattan.edu.au/report/reading-guarantee/

Transcript available on our website: https://grattan.edu.au/news/why-australia-needs-a-reading-guarantee/

Australia has a reading problem. A third of children can't read proficiently. In the typical Australian school classroom of 24 students, eight can't read well. This has huge flow on effects for their success in life and costs Australia billions of dollars. And the worst thing is, it's preventable.

In this podcast, report authors Jordana Hunter and Anika Stobart discuss The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child the best chance for success, and offer a new plan of how to reform reading education in Australia.

Read the report: https://grattan.edu.au/report/reading-guarantee/

Transcript available on our website: https://grattan.edu.au/news/why-australia-needs-a-reading-guarantee/

23 min

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