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- Headteachers vote to boycott Sats tests - The Guardian, Friday April 16, 2010
Two biggest teaching unions – NUT and NAHT – to take action against tests due to be sat by 600,000 children on May 10Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Headteachers unite to fight Sats - The Guardian, Tuesday May 20, 2003
Headteachers joined forces yesterday to step up pressure on the government to scrap national tests for seven-year-olds in England...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Headteachers reject 'appalling' marking of this year's Sats tests - The Guardian, Monday July 11, 2011
Headteachers fear their targets may be missed thanks to what some say is 'appalling' Sats markingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Headteachers angry at Sats 'nightmare' - The Guardian, Thursday May 15, 2008
National tests that will be taken by more than one million children this month were struck by computer problems, causing a nightmare for schools, headteachers have said.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads warn over exam 'meltdown' - BBC, Sunday May 6, 2007
Exam reforms being introduced next year will cause chaos and lead to a fall in standards, head teachers have warned.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads told to get tough on basics - BBC, Monday September 3, 2007
Head teachers in England are being told to concentrate on the basics of literacy and numeracy and to improve classroom behaviour.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads raise Sats 'inaccuracies' - BBC, Thursday July 16, 2009
A head teachers' union says it has received roughly 100 complaints from members about Sats "inaccuracies".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads oppose new punctuation and spelling test - BBC, Tuesday May 8, 2012
Head teachers say they will disrupt a new spelling, grammar and punctuation test to be introduced in England's primary schools next summer.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads may urge parents to boycott tests for 11-year-olds - The Guardian, Monday May 1, 2006
Parents may be asked to keep their children out of school as headteachers step up their campaign to end national tests for 11-year-olds and the school league tables based on the results.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads are right to boycott Sats - The Guardian, Friday May 7, 2010
Guardian letter writer takes issue with Peter Preston
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads angry at Sats publication - The Guardian, Friday August 1, 2008
The government's decision to publish England's provisional primary school Sats results next week "beggars belief", head teachers have said.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Head teachers angry over Sats creative writing marks - BBC, Tuesday July 5, 2011
Head teachers fear some pupils in England have been graded incorrectly in a writing test that forms part of their national curriculum tests or Sats.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Head teacher forced to apologise for error-laden report - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday November 30, 2010
A head teacher has been forced to apologise after a school report was sent to a parent containing 14 spelling and grammatical errors.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - He died from a love of poetry - The Guardian, Tuesday March 18, 2008
Poets, by tradition, imagine themselves likely to die young. But that's not a matter of imagination, says Associate Professor James C Kaufman, of California State University at San Bernardino. It's a simple fact.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Harold Pinter's forgotten sketch rediscovered after more than 50 years - The Guardian, Monday October 24, 2011
Surprise find at British Library is the script of 'Umbrellas', part of a 1960 revue performed only once at the Nottingham PlayhouseLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hardy, Heaney and Keats among Poems on the Underground - BBC, Friday January 7, 2011
Verses from John Keats, Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney are among those to be displayed on Tube trains as part of a project now in its 25th year.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Half of boys, age five, 'struggling in basics' - BBC, Thursday December 16, 2010
More than half of five-year-old boys are struggling in the basics after a year at primary school, official figures show.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Gruffalo creator Julia Donaldson is new children's laureate - The Guardian, Wednesday June 8, 2011
Donaldson plans to promote music and drama and champion libraries during her tenureLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Greatest classroom catastrophe in 50 years - Daily Telegraph, Friday December 2, 2005
The abandonment by teachers of the traditional method of teaching reading, known as phonics, precipitated the greatest educational catastrophe of the past 50 years.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Great writers 'fail' online test - BBC, Thursday November 12, 2009
Winston Churchill's iconic "fight them on the beaches" speech did not make the grade when it was marked by a computer system, exam experts have said.
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