DfE to measure lockdown learning losses without extra tests
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Coronavirus: Create 'emergency' 2020 baseline, DfE told
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DfE to bring baseline assessment in-house
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Teachers brand P1 tests 'a waste of time'
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P1 tests are waste of time, say Scottish teachers
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Teachers brand Scottish P1 tests ‘meaningless’
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  • Aug 29, 2019
Families lose legal challenge against Reception baseline
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  • Jul 31, 2019
Testing of four-year-olds facing family action over fears it will ‘harm’ pupils
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  • Jul 23, 2019
Government to face high court legal challenge against Reception baseline
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Testing four-year-olds to begin in September – but parents kept in dark
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  • Jul 23, 2019
Baseline ‘harm’ fears to be heard by High Court
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  • Jul 22, 2019
Why government request for early years experts to develop Reception Baseline is too little too late
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New tests are useful, say majority of primary leaders
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  • May 31, 2019
7000 schools opting out isn't a ringing endorsement for Reception Baseline
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  • May 14, 2019
Number of primary schools registered to take part in the pilot of the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) falls
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Baseline pilot snubbed by more than 7,000 schools
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  • May 14, 2019
Changes to assessments in primary schools
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  • May 14, 2019
Thousands of schools to pilot new reception class check-up
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Thousands of schools signed up to pilot the Reception baseline
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9,600 schools sign up to baseline assessment pilot
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  • May 14, 2019
Baseline trial data censored in FOI release
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  • May 13, 2019
Labour could replace Sats with Pisa-style sampling
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  • May 3, 2019
DfE accused of hiding teacher workload implications of baseline
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  • May 1, 2019
Trialling a social-emotional learning programme for teenagers
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  • Apr 30, 2019
The Tes Podcast: Exclusions, grammar schools and games
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  • Apr 26, 2019
March of the four year olds by more than a score
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  • Apr 26, 2019
Baseline tests 'will mean pressure on two-year-olds'
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  • Apr 25, 2019
Parents and children march against plans to test four-year-olds
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  • Apr 25, 2019
Hundreds of children and parents march against Reception baseline
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Primary school Sats: Pupils and parents protest
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Four-year-olds in Westminster protest
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  • Apr 25, 2019
As a teacher, I know parents are right to march against unfair tests for under-fives | Holly Rigby
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  • Apr 25, 2019
'Ludicrous' and 'flawed' - why some schools are already boycotting baseline
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  • Apr 24, 2019
The baseline assessment isn't perfect, but supporting it makes sense
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  • Apr 17, 2019
Labour will scrap Reception baseline and SATs
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Labour would scrap Sats because primary school children are 'unique'
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Labour will abolish Sats in primary schools, Corbyn tells education conference
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Labour pledges to scrap primary Sats if elected
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Jeremy Corbyn promises to scrap Sats tests in schools
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Corbyn: Labour will scrap SATs
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Corbyn says Labour would scrap Sats and Reception baseline test
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ASCL response to Labour's plan to scrap SATs
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Labour will abolish Sats exams in primary schools, Jeremy Corbyn says
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Parents plan legal action over new tests for four-year-olds
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Heads asked to sign pledge against pressurised testing
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  • Apr 15, 2019
Pre-school children to march on Number 10 in baseline protest
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Baseline assessment: four-year-olds prepare to march
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Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised?
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Fears of a 'technical, functional' early years curriculum
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Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised?
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Baseline testing: Education requires brave politicians
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  • Mar 20, 2019
Schools call for overhaul of primary school testing
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  • Mar 19, 2019
Self-regulation dropped from Reception baseline
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  • Mar 15, 2019
Need to know: Reception baseline assessment
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  • Mar 11, 2019
Speaking out against baseline
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DfE slammed for refusing to publish baseline trial results
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  • Mar 8, 2019
The baseline test won't work - just look at my kids
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  • Mar 6, 2019
Reporter's take: can the latest Baseline assessment win over critics?
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Reception baseline assessment: national voluntary pilot sign-up
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Reception baseline assessment: NAHT’s position
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Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry
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Reception baseline provider defends the ‘robust assessment’
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DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video
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  • Feb 28, 2019
Plans to broaden baseline beyond maths and literacy dropped
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  • Feb 27, 2019
‘Pointless’ baseline assessment pilot for 4 year olds announced by Government
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Schools invited to sign up for controversial baseline pilot
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Testing of under-fives goes ahead despite teaching union objections
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Schools sought for autumn 2019 baseline pilot
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Campaigners against the Baseline to speak at the Nursery World Show
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  • Jan 31, 2019
DfE and NFER on baseline testing: Do they know what they do?
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Dear Damian Hinds, plans to test little children are ‘flawed and unfit for purpose’ | Michael Rosen
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  • Aug 28, 2018
Baseline 'incentivises schools to do badly'
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  • Jul 18, 2018
A baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
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  • Jul 13, 2018
Trials of controversial baseline checks to start in September
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New BERA report pours scorn on proposed Reception Baseline Assessment in England
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  • Jul 9, 2018
NEU comment on BERA report on Baseline assessment
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Baseline has 'dubious validity', say academics
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  • Jul 4, 2018
'Testing has become like crack cocaine to the government'
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  • Apr 25, 2018
NAHT secures fairer accountability arrangements for infant, first, middle and junior schools
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  • Apr 24, 2018
'The baseline must be drawn here – this far, no further'
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  • Apr 23, 2018
Primary assessment in England
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  • Apr 11, 2018
New measure for fairer recording of primary school performance
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ASCL comment on Reception baseline assessment
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Daily roundup 11 April: Loneliness, prosthetics, and baseline assessments
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  • Apr 11, 2018
More Than A Score coalition comments on baseline announcement
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  • Apr 11, 2018
NFER wins contract for controversial Baseline assessment
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NFER to deliver reception baseline test
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Reception baseline assessment to be developed by NFER
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  • Apr 11, 2018
Why new tests will help teachers give extra support to those pupils that need it
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Scrap 'damaging and pointless' primary baseline test, say academics
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  • Apr 6, 2018
Banning teachers’ preferred method of baseline assessment will relieve 'burden', says minister
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  • Mar 6, 2018
Written answer re why observational assessment is not part of the criteria for the incoming early years baseline assessment
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  • Mar 6, 2018
Campaigners publish case against the baseline
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  • Feb 27, 2018
Jan Dubiel, Head of national and international development, Early Excellence
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  • Jan 23, 2018
Calls to boycott new baseline assessment trials – which won’t even start until 2019
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Reception baseline tests: 'Parents could boycott the trials'
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  • Dec 7, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 1 December 2017
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Early Excellence pulls out of bid for 'unworkable' Reception baseline test
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  • Nov 29, 2017
DfE invites bids to develop and run £10m Reception baseline
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  • Nov 22, 2017
DfE planning to spend £10m on Reception baseline test
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  • Nov 21, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 20 October 2017
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  • Oct 20, 2017
Greening announces plans for reception-age baseline checks
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  • Sep 15, 2017
DfE publishes their response to the consultation on primary assessment in England
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Reception baseline assessment: dangerous, inappropriate and flawed data
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Nine-year-olds to be tested on times tables as Sats scrapped
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  • Sep 15, 2017
SATs for pupils aged seven will be scrapped
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  • Sep 14, 2017
SATs for seven-year-olds scrapped from 2023
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  • Sep 14, 2017
KS1 SATs will only be scrapped if baseline works
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Early Education condemns government decision on baseline assessment
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Primary assessment overhaul is good for children and schools
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  • Sep 14, 2017
New baseline check for Reception and revised early learning goals
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds to be scrapped from 2023
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 23 June 2017
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  • Jun 23, 2017
Best starting point for measuring pupil progress is an age-appropriate, standardised baseline assessment in reception year
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Teachers disagree with government over best year for baseline assessment
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  • Jun 21, 2017
Education and childcare must not be pushed down the political agenda to 'any other business'
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  • Jun 13, 2017
General Election 2017: an analysis of manifesto plans for education
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  • May 26, 2017
Pass or fail: election manifesto education policies analysed
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  • May 26, 2017
Draft response to Primary Assessment consultation
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  • May 22, 2017
ATL comment on the Labour Party’s manifesto
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  • May 16, 2017