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The coalitions position on key stage 2 tests

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Last week, the new Department for Education published a notice on its website which included what looked like an uncompromising statement on the future of key stage 2 testing.

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SATs marking problems this year

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Do those responsible for co-ordinating the marking of Sats tests have a death wish for these assessments?

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    • Forced to be free
      OK, something different this time. Inspired by various pronouncements in recent weeks, and the odd twitter discussion, I've been imagining a - fictional - scenario in which our schooling system operates against a radically different political and power backdrop. Actually, it is different in only respect: in this fantasy we now have a government for the […]
    • Adventures in league table land
      I have a confession to make, which may have become obvious by now to regular readers of this blog: I have a love-hate affair with school league tables and data. On the one hand, regular readers of this blog will need no reminding that I am…erm…sceptical about the degree to which our education regime has been geared towards the priorities of raising stati […]
    • National curriculum review: what is going on?
      Are any readers of this blog aware of the detailed work which has been taking place with regard to the new national mathematics curriculum? Are you aware of the involvement in it by the now sadly late mathematics educator Richard Dunne? Well, if anyone here can answer either of these questions with a “yes”, you appear to be in a very select group. Findin […]
    • Privatisation? A whole new can of worms.
      Ten days ago, the Times Educational Supplement published a remarkable exclusive (http://bit.ly/xDdJRT) documenting how two “City financiers” are behind an initiative which they hope will lead to their privately-run education group taking over one in 10 schools in England. Yes, you read that right: this start-up organisation has plans to operate 2,000 sch […]