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- Testing 'deprives primary pupils' - BBC, Tuesday November 6, 2007
Teaching for tests in maths and English deprives primary school children of a wide range of subjects, a study claims.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Test tips equal 300 pages of pressure - Times Educational Supplement, Friday July 1, 2005
Government's KS3 English "booster pack" can hinder learning, warns exam regulator....
The National Association for the Teaching of English said schools feel political pressure to follow the guidance in order to improve results, despite the lack of educational merit.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Test results record small gains - BBC, Tuesday August 5, 2008
There has been a slight improvement in children's attainment in English and maths tests in England's primary schools, provisional results show.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Test results hold mixed messages - BBC, Wednesday March 29, 2006
The number of secondary schools in England where less than 50% of 14-year-olds reached the expected standard in national tests has fallen.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Test results 'may need scrapping' - BBC, Monday July 14, 2008
The head of one of the main education unions says the national curriculum test results may need to be annulled.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Test regime must change - Times Educational Supplement, Friday November 2, 2007
Primary Review says no evidence to back Government claim that testing raises standards. Children's reading standards have barely improved in 55 years, despite ministers spending £500 million on the National Literacy Strategy, the biggest inquiry in primary education in 40 years has been told.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Test papers untouched in markers’ homes - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 27, 2008
Emergency full-time marking centres have been set up so examiners can work seven days a week to mark national tests taken by 11- and 14-year-olds. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Test levels: Whose expectations? - BBC, Friday October 7, 2005
For many parents, myself included, reading a school report can be quite baffling.... We are not quite so sure what it means when the report says your child is "working towards Level 4".... I asked Miriam Rosen, Ofsted's director of inspections, whether [Level 4] was the level "expected" of all 11-year-olds or only of the average 11-year-old. She could not tell me.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Test abolition 'threat to Bard' - BBC, Wednesday November 26, 2008
Teachers are cancelling their places on Shakespeare training days since the abolition of compulsory tests for 14-year-olds, thespians have warned.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tesco boss gives Brown basic skills warning - The Guardian, Wednesday September 12, 2007
· Leahy highlights 'failures' in education system · Challenge to India and China 'undermined' Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - TES Write Away - the finalists - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 20, 2003
Read the work of the 20 finalists in our seventh annual children's writing competitionLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tens of thousands of 11-year-olds leave primary school practically illiterate - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday August 4, 2009
About 35,000 11-year-olds left primary school this year unable to read and write properly, test results are expected to show today.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teens' test results mixed picture - BBC, Tuesday August 12, 2008
Teenagers in England did less well in reading and science tests this year, provisional official figures suggest.
But the 14-year-olds did better than last year's in maths and in writing, in the national curriculum tests.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teenagers who fail GCSEs to be forced to retake maths and English - Daily Telegraph, Thursday March 3, 2011
Teenagers failing to gain decent GCSEs in English and maths will be forced to resit the subjects at college under sweeping Coalition plans to boost standards of basic skill.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teenagers must stick at English and maths - BBC, Friday May 13, 2011
Teenagers who fail to achieve good GCSE grades at English and maths will have to carry on studying the subjects beyond the age of 16.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teenagers 'only use 800 different words a day' - Daily Telegraph, Monday January 11, 2010
A generation of teenagers who communicate via the Internet and by text messages are risking unemployment because their daily vocabulary consists of just 800 words, the Government's new children's communication tsar has warned.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teenagers 'not engaged' by school - BBC, Friday October 20, 2006
The failure of many young people to "engage in education" is a major problem, a report on teenagers' learning in England and Wales says. The latest Nuffield Foundation review says the failure is due partly to "inappropriate targets, learning experiences and forms of assessment"Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teenagers 'lack reading stamina' - BBC, Thursday December 22, 2005
A lack of exposure to novels at school is leaving pupils with little "reading stamina", a report says. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority found this was "limiting pupils' experience of pre-20th Century literature in particular". Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teenage test results not so bad - BBC, Wednesday February 28, 2007
Fewer of England's 14-year-olds reached the expected literacy standard in tests last year, final figures confirm. But the decline from 2005 was only half as bad as the provisional statistics issued last autumn had suggested. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ted Hughes joins literary greats at Poets' Corner - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Ted Hughes, poet laureate and author of such celebrated collections as Crow and Birthday Letters, is to be honoured by a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here