The problem with how we measure success in schools

By Anna Patty
Updated May 29 2016 - 10:33am, first published 10:17pm
Cabramatta High School students (L to R) Ali Al Saliman, 15,  from Iraq, Junior Kawaya, 15, from the DRC, Uredi Mugisha, 18, from Burundi, Mohsin Nasrullah, 16, from Iraq, and Rami Hikmat, 16, from Iraq participate in a 'Healing through Evan Yako Drumming' class at Cabramatta High School. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Cabramatta High School students (L to R) Ali Al Saliman, 15, from Iraq, Junior Kawaya, 15, from the DRC, Uredi Mugisha, 18, from Burundi, Mohsin Nasrullah, 16, from Iraq, and Rami Hikmat, 16, from Iraq participate in a 'Healing through Evan Yako Drumming' class at Cabramatta High School. Photo: Kate Geraghty

In a demountable classroom at Cabramatta High School, students are beating drums as part of a program that combines music with therapy. The steady rhythm and varied intensity of the drum beat is providing relief from trauma for students who have seen war in their home countries.

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