‘National tests for seven and 11-year-olds are putting children under stress and feeding into a “pervasive anxiety” about their lives and the world they are growing up in, according to an intimate portrait of primary school life published today.’ That’s one of the conclusions reached by an academic team charged with reviewing primary education in England. Read more here: http://education.guardian.co.uk/primaryeducation/story/0,,2189589,00.html
I don’t why it takes the commissioning of a team of education academics to demonstrate this or, worse still, whether the New Labour government will change it’s obsession with tests and league tables as a result of the findings but teachers, parents and very many children have known the truth of the statement above for over a decade now.
Time to dust off the boycott of SATs maybe?
