AUSTRALIA needs to do more of this – naming and shaming.

More than 130 Victorian state schools have been identified as underperforming which questions our country’s level of education compared to other countries.

The microscope is on underperforming schools with parents now able to check how well their childrens’ schools is going through a range of different measures including national assessment test results and what the average absent list is from school.

North Shore Primary School in Geelong was ranked one of the worst.

It’s a great sign that there are national assessment test results in order for schools and education to keep on the same line.

But what can the education department do with underperforming schools.

Give government grants? Get the teachers in more training? Adapt a different method to teach the students?

Usually it’s government grants to adopt further programs to enrich children with further education where needed.

These underperforming schools need to be named and shamed in order to get better.