More Tests! More often!
From Workers' Liberty Teachers NUT conference bulletin 2007 Heard the one about how the government are going to scrap SATs? Alan Johnson (Secretary of State for Education) and Ken Boston (Head of QCA) have been spinning this line since the turn of the year and the publication of a DfES document, ‘Making Good Progress’. This outlines the plans for a new assessment system. Ending SATs is dangled as a possibility, but in their place will come more tests, more often, along with payment by results. The government want students to ‘ascend’ two NC levels per Key Stage. To ensure teachers are pushing...