The National Union of Teachers has voted to ballot its members on a boycottof Sats tests. Your views? Parliament decided there should be national curriculum tests, and teachers, asemployees of the state, should do what they are paid to do. The tests ...Read More
President Obama proposed Saturday to overhaul the No Child Left Behind law, saying he wanted to help all students get on track for college and careers, through a new school accountability system that he hoped could be in place within ...Read More
Some Republicans may experience a sense of schadenfreude because the Indiana Teachers' Retirement Fund lost $4.6 million in the Chrysler bankruptcy ("About Those 'Speculators' . . . " Review & Outlook, May 21), since teacher unions enthusiastically supported President Obama's ...Read More
They are more likely to be high-performers if their parents are teachers, academics and lawyers, said Professor Woodhead. He said ministers should accept that some children were born "not very bright" and stop convincing themselves otherwise. In an interview, he called for ...Read More
Lecturers said they had uncovered evidence of students being given places on the basis of "forged or false" certificates. Some claimed their suspicions were only aroused when undergraduates and postgraduates from overseas struggled to cope with the demands of courses. When challenged ...Read More
Ed Balls, the education secretary, today backed a drive to improve teacher assessment to the point where it is robust enough to replace national Sats tests in England. Accepting a report from an expert group on assessment, he announced that Sats ...Read More
School tests under threat of a teacher boycott could be scrapped in favour of teacher assessments in the long-term, a government-backed group of experts indicated today. The body was set up by Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, to analyse the current ...Read More
The science community says tests do not fit with children's curiosity Science Sats taken by 11-year-olds in England are to be scrapped and replaced by teacher assessments and national sampling, ministers have agreed. They have backed recommendations from an expert group ...Read More
The education of more than a million children will be improved by headteachers' historic vote to boycott next year's Sats tests, school leaders claimed today. All preparation for Sats will stop from this September after the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) ...Read More
Head teachers are to write to 600,000 families telling them children will not be prepared for SATs tests from next term. In the next stage of campaigning to scupper SATs for 11-year-olds, they will claim that children about to move into ...Read More
The Sats results are used to make league tables Head teachers are to vote on whether to ballot members over a possible boycott of a centrepiece of England's education system, the Sats tests. The National Association of Head Teachers, meeting in ...Read More
Teachers will vote today to boycott next year’s national curriculum tests, ina bitter campaign to force their abolition. Two trade unions have taken the unusual step of joining forces to confront theGovernment over the tests, known as SATs, for 7 and ...Read More
