The Grattan Institute identified three things the Federal Government should do to boost student performance in an analysis last week.

It follows it's recent analysis of the 2021 NAPLAN results, which shows the learning gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students more than doubles between year 3 and year 9, using the educational achievement level of parents as a measure of disadvantage.

'In year 3, the reading ability of children whose parents did not finish school lags two years and four months behind that of children whose parents have a bachelor’s degree. By year 9, the learning gap grows to more than five years. That is, the gap grows as children spend longer in school.'

The three areas identified by the Grattan Institute's Jordana Hunter in the most recent analysis, are:

1. to ensure all government schools are on track to reach their full entitlement to needs-based funding based on the schooling resource standard
2. to build a national, high-quality teacher workforce
3. to support the creation of two new positions, instructional specialists and master teachers, paid about $40,000 and $80,000 more respectively than the current top pay levels for classroom teachers.