ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes My School, is a play on the name of the website 'www.myschool.edu.au' established by the Australian federal Labour government in 2010, which provides public access to the results of the National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). The establishment of this website was, after the introduction of NAPLAN itself, the most divisive aspect of federal Labour's 'education revolution'. This website reduces schools to a bundle of quantitative descriptors which the media have used to create comparative league tables resulting in 'a discourse of blame' levelled at students and teachers in schools whose profile was reported as 'below state average' in NAPLAN test results. The book enables one disadvantaged school, Grange High School, through the voices of its Principal, teachers, students and parents, to tell their school story from the inside.
