Head teachers warn against the return of national tests for 14-year-olds
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Government asks Capita for cash back over cancelled SATs
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Schools 'won't be sued' if they don't carry out testing, says minister in leaked MPs' briefing
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Scots National 5 tests face axe for second year
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Teachers urged to boycott Wales' national school tests for primary pupils
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Sats: Teachers' anger over 'bumblebee question' marking
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Spag test risks leaving pupils too 'scared' to write
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Scottish teachers told to intervene if P1 tests are causing pupil distress
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Tell four-year-olds that tests are a game, say Scottish teachers
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Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised?
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Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised?
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Teachers 'lack the maths skills' to use P1 Scottish standardised assessment data
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Scotland: Academics turn screw on Swinney over P1 tests
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A glimpse into the post-calculator world. Could an adult pass KS2 SATs?
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Number of schools investigated over SATs maladministration rises to almost 600
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Boys overtake girls in maths by age seven, study of 1.5 million primary school tests finds
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Scotland: New inquiry into controversial national tests
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Pupils will get 6 seconds to complete times tables test questions
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Key stage 2 national curriculum test review outcomes: 2018
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Scotland: Swinney caves in and orders review of P1 school tests
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Scotland: Swinney announces independent review of P1 testing
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Sats: KS1 reading results drop
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Jane Bradley: Children just aren’t that bothered by P1 tests
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‘Deeply flawed’ P1 test won’t close attainment gap, says head
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Council leader warns against ‘political posturing’ over P1 testing opt-out
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Brian Wilson: Testing means little without resources
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  • Sep 21, 2018
Scotland: Councillors defy ministers with plan to scrap P1 tests
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Exams dismissed as ‘fake news’ by 'confused' public
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Swinney: teachers must decide when tests are sat
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First Minister’s Questions dominated by education
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National tests 'not about big data for government'
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  • Sep 20, 2018
Scotland: Ministers vote to end P1 testing but Swinney is not for turning
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Scotland: Testing times for Swinney
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Scotland’s Education Secretary refuses to backdown on controversial P1 tests
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'Nothing to fear' from Scotland’s school tests says international expert
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MSPs call for 'halt' to primary tests
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Swinney urged to respect Parliament after Government defeated on P1 testing
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John Swinney urges Scots schools to continue P1 tests despite vote
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Scotland: John Swinney told to ‘listen’ and scrap P1 tests
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Scotland: Holyrood expected to vote against standard assessments for P1 children
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Share test results with parents, says government in Scotland
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Scotland: Demo of P1 tests will allow 'informed debate' - Swinney
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Scotland: John Swinney urged to respect Holyrood vote on P1 testing
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  • Sep 16, 2018
Pupils 'being double tested' in quarter of councils
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Scotland: Last-ditch appeal by Swinney to save P1 tests
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Scotland: National tests opt-out advice 'not appropriate'
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Scotland: National tests are ‘accessible and stimulating’
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Scots P1 tests to be overhauled - but not axed
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  • Aug 28, 2018
Anger after parents told they can't withdraw pupils from school tests
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Testing analysis: When 'exceptional circumstances’ doesn't mean what you think
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Teacher union backs parents’ boycott of tests for P1 children in Scotland
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John Swinney must try harder
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Teachers and parents sound off to Swinney on education policy
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Scotland: John Swinney defends tests for 4-year-olds
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Calls to ban Scotland’s P1 testing as pressure builds on Government
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  • Aug 15, 2018
Scottish families encouraged to pull pupils out of tests
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Scotland: pressure building to scrap P1 tests in face of opt-out campaign
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Calls to ban Scotland’s P1 testing as pressure builds on Government
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P1 testing rollout was a mess, say one-third of parents
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  • Aug 13, 2018
Scotland: Suspend tests to let pupils face rest of world again, SNP urged
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  • Aug 10, 2018
John Swinney: Primary one testing should be ‘fun and enjoyable’
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John Swinney: Controversial school tests 'should be fun'
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  • Aug 7, 2018
'Take your fingers out of your ears!' SNP told to axe school tests for five-year-olds
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  • Aug 7, 2018
Testing five-year-olds is not child’s play | Lesley Riddoch
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Scotland: Save my sanity, please — school tests for five-year-olds make sense
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Scotland: Teachers prepare to boycott ‘cruel’ compulsory tests for five‑year‑olds
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  • Aug 3, 2018
Call to abolish tests that leave P1s ‘shaking’
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Nicola Sturgeon’s flagship new tests blasted as ‘cruel’ by hundreds of teachers
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  • Aug 2, 2018
School tests for five-year-olds leave pupils 'shaking and crying'
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  • Aug 2, 2018
Scotland: John Swinney urged to abandon ‘cruel nonsense’ of tests for five-year-olds
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Phonics screening check and key stage 1 assessments: England 2017
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Philip Pullman: Government's exams 'fetish' ruins lives
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Parents should put down phones and speak to children to boost vocabulary, author Philip Pullman has urged
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National tests bordering on 'child abuse' claims head
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Scotland: Tests that leave pupils in tears ‘must be scrapped’
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Teachers attack blanket testing plan for primary pupils
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  • Jun 7, 2018
Call to scrap 'stressful' testing of Scottish five-year-olds
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  • May 26, 2018
What can short standardised tests tell us about the attainment and progress of individual pupils and of schools?
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  • May 23, 2018
‘SNP obsession’: Nicola Sturgeon undermined over more testing in schools
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Senior adviser speaks out against nationwide testing in schools
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Nicola Sturgeon’s key advisor warns against drive for national testing
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A worried eight-year-old wrote to the Education Secretary asking why he had to sit National Tests
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  • May 6, 2018
What are the National Tests in Wales? Why are children taking them?
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  • May 2, 2018
Children aged 6 given homework for Sats
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  • Apr 28, 2018
Union demands boycott of tests for four-year-olds
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Thousands of pupils to sit controversial standardised tests twice
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  • Nov 7, 2017
Scotland: EIS threatens industrial action over school results
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KS1 Results: phonics results static as reading, writing and maths rise
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  • Sep 28, 2017
Teachers threaten councils with boycott over "blanket" testing plans
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  • Sep 22, 2017
John Swinney rules out national collection of detailed pupil test data
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Political pressure surrounding new pupil tests “risks” their successful roll-out
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Labour pledges to scrap planned return to baseline assessments
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  • May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto: The nerdy details
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Labour manifesto: Teacher pay bargaining pledge dropped
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Labour manifesto: the full list of schools policies
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  • May 16, 2017
Green Party pledges to abolish 'pointless' Sats
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Abolition of SATs among Green pledges to reform school system
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The data deficit effect
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Pupils of 11 to sit specific times tables tests for the first time next year as part of their Key Stage Two exams
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Primary school pupils to sit times tables test from next year
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Primary school pupils to sit times tables tests from next year
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John Swinney: New tests will not create extra work for teachers
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