SNP urged to scrap 'Thatcherite' approach to pupil testing
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DfE considering return of Sats at 14 and axing teaching hours limits
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Drop in uptake of controversial P1 tests
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Government national testing stance 'tramples' democracy
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  • Sep 19, 2019
John Swinney accused of ‘trampling over democracy like Boris Johnson'
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Was P1 testing review set up to 'give John Swinney the answers he wants'?
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  • Jun 12, 2019
Scotland: Swinney defies MSPs and presses on with P1 testing
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‘Scant evidence of children being upset’ by P1 tests
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Controversial P1 tests to continue with modifications, says John Swinney
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Controversial P1 tests to continue with modifications, Education Secretary says
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P1 assessments to continue with 'important modifications'
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Testing of five-year-olds should continue, review says
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Scottish Government to continue P1 tests after backing from independent review
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John Swinney pressed again to scrap controversial Primary 1 tests
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  • Jun 11, 2019
Education Secretary urged to use speech to scrap P1 tests
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Scotland: Willie Rennie challenges Education Secretary over P1 testing
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John Swinney: P1 testing introduced 'without any difficulty whatsoever'
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New tests are useful, say majority of primary leaders
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  • May 31, 2019
Anti-Sats campaigners want to ‘educate’ MPs
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  • May 21, 2019
Fortnight to decide on Sats as union sets ballot date
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  • May 21, 2019
Scotland's largest council backs right of headteachers to scrap P1 tests
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  • May 16, 2019
7000 schools opting out isn't a ringing endorsement for Reception Baseline
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  • May 14, 2019
(SPAG) Tests: Spelling, punctuation and grammar
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  • May 14, 2019
Corbyn’s promise to abolish Sats is merely a crowd pleaser | Fiona Millar
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  • May 14, 2019
Scotland: Controversial P1 tests carried out 11,500 times despite MSPs’ vote to scrap them
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  • May 12, 2019
Parents boycott Sats tests at Bealings primary school
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  • May 10, 2019
Should the SATs be boycotted?
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  • May 10, 2019
Entire class to boycott Sats exams as parents protest against ‘constant testing’
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  • May 9, 2019
Primary school Sats are necessary to show that taxpayer money is being well spent, Ofqual chair says
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  • May 9, 2019
Sats abolition: 'It's time teachers believed another system is possible'
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  • May 7, 2019
Labour could replace Sats with Pisa-style sampling
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  • May 3, 2019
'Keep Sats,' say ministers – but they've already made the tests a sideshow
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  • May 2, 2019
March of the four year olds by more than a score
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  • Apr 26, 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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  • Apr 25, 2019
Primary school Sats: Pupils and parents protest
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  • Apr 25, 2019
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
Get real, DfE – Sats cover more than just "basic skills"
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  • Apr 24, 2019
'Ludicrous' and 'flawed' - why some schools are already boycotting baseline
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  • Apr 24, 2019
Report on Scottish National Standardised Assessments: key findings
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  • Apr 23, 2019
Scotland: Data gap in primary standards, say MSPs
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  • Apr 23, 2019
Education Secretary sets out the importance of testing in primary school
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  • Apr 21, 2019
Scotland: John Swinney announces overhaul of primary one tests after official report attacks botched introduction
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  • Apr 18, 2019
Scotland: Teachers were given ‘little or no’ information on P1 tests
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Scotland: Primary 1 assessments to be modified but not scrapped
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Scotland: Too little, too soon? Anger over John Swinney's revamp of P1 testing
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  • Apr 18, 2019
Scotland: Primary pupil assessments to be reformed after teacher feedback
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Scotland: Revamp of controversial P1 tests after children left distressed
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  • Apr 18, 2019
There is method in the madness of Labour's ban on primary school testing
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  • Apr 17, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn pledges to abolish primary school tests: Children 'left in floods of tears'
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  • Apr 17, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn's plan to scrap SATs is a dumbed down plot to damage pupils' dreams
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  • Apr 17, 2019
Corbyn pledges to scrap SATs for primary pupils
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  • Apr 17, 2019
Labour would scrap Sats because primary school children are 'unique'
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  • Apr 16, 2019
If everybody hates Sats, why haven’t they been abolished already?
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Corbyn vows to scrap Sats exams at primary schools
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn vows to scrap SATs exams for seven-year-old school children
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Labour will abolish all primary school SATs tests if Jeremy Corbyn gets into No10
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Labour pledges to scrap primary Sats if elected
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Labour vows to end SATs exams in primary schools
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Corbyn: Labour will scrap SATs
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Corbyn says Labour would scrap Sats and Reception baseline test
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn reveals Labour would scrap ‘high-stress’ primary school Sats tests
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Labour will scrap Sats and let teachers teach, vows Jeremy Corbyn
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  • Apr 16, 2019
ASCL response to Labour's plan to scrap SATs
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Labour will abolish Sats exams in primary schools, Jeremy Corbyn says
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  • Apr 16, 2019
Heads asked to sign pledge against pressurised testing
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  • Apr 15, 2019
The baseline test won't work - just look at my kids
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  • Mar 6, 2019
Education is damaged by mindless obsession with testing
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  • Mar 6, 2019
Reporter's take: can the latest Baseline assessment win over critics?
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  • Mar 5, 2019
Reception baseline assessment: national voluntary pilot sign-up
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Reception baseline assessment: NAHT’s position
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Scotland: Swinney doubts expert’s view on ‘useless’ P1 tests
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  • Feb 21, 2019
Scotland: Councils flout government directive on testing
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Scotland national testing: ‘We warned it wouldn’t work’
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Scotland: Total bill to date for national tests? £8m
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Scotland: Market forces risk widening the attainment gap
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Scotland: Private companies 'seeking profits' from P1 testing
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Primary tests - don't put pressure on teachers to raise standards, expert warns
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: P1 testing ‘will lead to more pupils with special needs’
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Don’t test the slower-learning late bloomers in P1, literacy expert says
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Professor takes Scots P1 test and says questions not ‘easy’
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  • Jan 30, 2019
Scotland: P1 test questions 'not all easy', expert tells MSPs after sitting assessment
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Scotland: National tests for youngest pupils: review starts
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  • Jan 25, 2019
Scotland: Experiences of P1 pupil assessments sought in review
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  • Jan 25, 2019
Scotland: The inherent flaw in testing 5-year-olds
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  • Jan 25, 2019
Scotland: Experiences of P1 pupil assessments sought in review
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  • Jan 25, 2019
Data from Scottish P1 tests could be ‘invalid’, says academic
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Scotland: Primary one national test data could be 'invalidated', academic warns
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Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon apologises to ‘misrepresented’ academics
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  • Jan 11, 2019
Scotland: First Minister apology to academics 'misrepresented' on primary school testing
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Scotland: Claims top academic backs Primary 1 tests are a 'perverse misrepresentation'
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Second international expert savages Scottish Government on primary testing
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Scotland: Swinney under pressure to drop tests for P1 pupils
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Scotland: Assessment of youngest pupils used 'unethically'
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  • Jan 9, 2019
Analysis: Academic asks "Was Scottish Government stupid or deliberately misleading?"
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  • Jan 9, 2019
Scotland: Schools using test data for unethical purposes, MSPs warned
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Scottish government 'brazenly twisted' top academic’s work’
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  • Jan 9, 2019
Scotland: John Swinney ‘should say sorry for fabricating support for P1 testing’
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  • Jan 9, 2019
Top academic: 'I was misrepresented by Scottish Government on P1 testing'
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  • Jan 9, 2019
P1 pupils in Scotland being used ‘to score political points’
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  • Jan 7, 2019
Scotland: ‘Scrapping our national tests for 5-year-olds makes little sense’
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Scotland: Council attacked for ‘political games’ over P1 testing
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Scotland: Two councils vote to end Primary 1 tests
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Leader comment: P1 tests must not be political football
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Scotland: John Swinney to make statement on P1 testing
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  • Oct 25, 2018
Kevin Pringle: Testing pupils is not the key to boosting performance
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  • Sep 23, 2018
John Swinney to 'proceed until apprehended' on P1 testing
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Union calls for P1 assessments to be scrapped as guidelines breached
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Scots primary one pupils left crying by ‘cruel’ national testing
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