News archive for 1st May 2017

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SATs results put too much pressure on primary schools - ASCL SATs are critically flawed - ATL - ATL Primary Assessment – Select Committee Report - NUT USA: hidden horror of school sex assaults - Mail Private schools tout for business with free flights - Times 'High-stakes' testing harming teaching and learning in primary schools - UK Parliament USA:Quadruplets to attend Yale together after receiving offers from Harvard and 57 other colleges - Independent Church of England: stop parents from refusing RE lessons - The Educator New campaign to turn old Royal High School into world-class concert hall - Scotsman Ofsted accused of hiding huge gaps between inspections - FE Week Sats tests endangering children's learning and mental health, MPs warn - Independent Children's education at risk over 'high-stakes' testing, MPs warn - Mail Primary Assessment: five warnings issued by MPs - Times Educational Supplement | TES The colour of numbers: visions of our mathematical universe - Guardian USA: student sex assault reports - state by state - Mail Fact check: Did the Conservatives fulfil their 2015 schools manifesto promises? - Schools Week UUK pushes for education deals in FTA negotiations - PIE News Labour leader pledges schools another £3billion over next three years - Mail Reform 'high stakes' primary tests, MPs urge - BBC Primary school headteachers could strike again over budget cuts - Mail Exams should not be given such 'high stakes' because they damage wellbeing - Mail Andrew Likierman: taking foreign students out of immigration stats is a win-win - Times Technical colleges are half empty - Times National Citizen Service increases chances of pupils going to university, Ucas figures suggest - Times Educational Supplement | TES The 13 ways MPs want primary tests improved - Schools Week Stop judging primary schools on one year’s SATs results, say MPs - Schools Week More primary school children suffering stress from Sats, survey finds - Guardian Primary pupils ‘turned off reading by complex tests’ - Times High-stakes Sats 'harming pupil wellbeing and learning' - Times Educational Supplement | TES