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SATs exams cancelled for Primary school students this summer
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Jan 6, 2021
Sats 2021: Tests cancelled this year says Williamson
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Jan 6, 2021
NEU: SATs Cancelled
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Jan 6, 2021
8 ways schools need help to survive the Covid 2nd wave
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Oct 3, 2020
Sats and all primary tests will go ahead in 2021
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Jul 2, 2020
Three reasons we should move Sats to Year 7
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SATS
Apr 26, 2020
Third of 11‑year‑olds miss target for 3Rs
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Dec 14, 2019
DfE corrects mistakes in 2018 primary testing data
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Oct 25, 2019
Jeremy Corbyn on Sats, Ofsted and teacher retention
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Sep 22, 2019
Sats: Pass mark lowered in maths and Spag
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Jul 10, 2019
One in three children leaving primary school this year have failed to reach the required standards for reading, writing and maths,
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Jul 10, 2019
Sats results show slight rise in pupils meeting targets in England
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SATS
Jul 9, 2019
More primary school pupils achieve ‘expected standard’ in Sats exams amid criticism of testing regime
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Jul 9, 2019
Sats: A third below par in reading, writing and maths
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SATS
Jul 9, 2019
Sats week: What to expect
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May 12, 2019
School inspectors will look beyond Sats test results, says Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman
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May 12, 2019
Should we scrap SATs? Cautiously, yes
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Apr 20, 2019
‘Poorer pupils will suffer’ if primary tests scrapped
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Jeremy Corbyn
Apr 19, 2019
Half of all primary pupils and a third of parents suffer stress and anxiety over school tests
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Amanda Spielman
Ofsted
Apr 14, 2019
Sats: Why I run regular practice sessions
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Feb 24, 2019
Primary school league tables show Sat results are on the rise
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Primary schools
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Nov 18, 2018
Ofqual wants stronger rules on SATs oversight amid cheating reports
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Oct 25, 2018
Primary school teacher who leaked SATs answers killed herself after being warned she could lose job
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Oct 4, 2018
E-ACT primary school has SATs results cancelled for reading and maths
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Aug 23, 2018
Highly rated academy over-aided Sats pupils, inquiry finds
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Aug 8, 2018
London school praised by ministers and forced to become academy cheated in Sats exams
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Aug 8, 2018
School of the year pupils branded cheats after Year 6 SATs tests are annulled
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Jul 23, 2018
Britain's best school has its SATs results ruled null and void in cheating storm
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Jul 21, 2018
Colburn school exam results annulled after inquiry
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Jul 18, 2018
'Despite success, Sats results day left us hollow'
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Jul 16, 2018
Teachers warn tougher Sats tests are causing primary school pupils too much stress
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Nick Gibb
Jul 10, 2018
Sats results: Minister would take dim view of schools putting pressure on children in exams
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Jul 10, 2018
Sats 2018: Pass marks rise for each subject
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Jul 10, 2018
‘Hidden market’ in Sats moderation
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Jun 4, 2018
Secret Teacher: teaching children without play was soul-destroying
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Jun 2, 2018
Headteacher who helped children cheat in Sats exams banned from working in schools
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Jun 1, 2018
Head teacher banned for helping pupils cheat in SATs
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May 31, 2018
My guide for parents of students sitting exams
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May 23, 2018
Sats are over: now to build happy memories of Y6
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May 21, 2018
Sats: Teachers react to ‘nightmare’ maths paper
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May 17, 2018
What are SATs, why don't we have them in Wales and what's different about our National Tests?
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Wales
May 17, 2018
Sats: Was today's reading test fair?
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May 15, 2018
Children aged 6 given homework for Sats
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Apr 28, 2018
Must do better? Why parents plan boycott of school Sats tests
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Apr 22, 2018
Lauren Child profile: ‘I don’t see the point in Sats. I hate testing for little people’
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Mar 17, 2018
East End primary school wins best in class in Parent Power tables
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Nov 19, 2017
Sats: Fewer schools have results quashed
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Nov 7, 2017
Government investigated 524 cases of SAT maladministration in 2016
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Nov 7, 2017
Oliver Kamm: Children grasp fronted adverbials better than ‘experts’
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Oct 7, 2017
SATs reading test 'so tough it left pupils in tears'
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Oct 6, 2017
Primary school Sats too hard, says watchdog
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Oct 6, 2017
SATs test which was 'too middle class' has been criticised by the exam regulator
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Oct 5, 2017
Sats should be scrapped, says best-selling author Lauren Child
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Oct 5, 2017
Ofqual rules 2016 SATs reading test was ‘unduly hard’
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Oct 5, 2017
Sats reading test was 'unduly hard' says exams watchdog
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Oct 5, 2017
Free schools outperform state schools and academies in SATs
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Sep 29, 2017
DfE publishes their response to the consultation on primary assessment in England
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Sep 15, 2017
The Tes podcast: School funding, Sats and scripted lessons
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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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Mail
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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
The government is listening to school leaders’ concerns about assessment policy, says NAHT
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Sep 14, 2017
Primary assessment overhaul is good for children and schools
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Sep 14, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds in England to be scrapped
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Sep 14, 2017
New tests are of no educational benefit to children
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Sep 14, 2017
Primary assessment in England
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Sep 14, 2017
Key stage 1 SATs scrapped from 2023
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Sep 14, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds to be scrapped from 2023
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Sep 14, 2017
This year's Sats spelling test was harder than in 2016, figures suggest
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Sep 4, 2017
Head who falsified Sats results is struck off
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Sep 1, 2017
Head who falsified Sats papers is struck off
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Sep 1, 2017
NAHT comment on early data from 2017 KS2 SATS
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Aug 31, 2017
Sats results: KS2 writing assessments 'more consistent than last year'
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Aug 31, 2017
Sats: 2017 primary progress floor standards revealed
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Aug 31, 2017
The four key trends in the 2017 KS2 primary test results
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Aug 31, 2017
Sats results: Variation between local authorities shrinks – but the gap is still 'considerable'
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Aug 31, 2017
Nearly a quarter of pupils failed controversial Sats semi-colon question
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Aug 30, 2017
Teacher banned for giving pupils answers during Sats test
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Aug 15, 2017
The teacher's book in which characters literally leap off the page
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Aug 9, 2017
Releasing SATs marking guidance ‘would increase teacher workload’, claim ministers
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Aug 9, 2017
Sats: Publishing markers' guidance 'risks adding to teacher stress'
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Aug 9, 2017
Sats: Fewer than one in four pupils reach expected standard in science
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Jul 20, 2017
Sats: Prepare for 'secure-fit' writing assessments to be scrapped soon, heads told
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Jul 20, 2017
Sats: Writing assessment changes need time 'to bed in', says Greening
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Jul 20, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 14 July 2017
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Jul 14, 2017
PISA tests for 5-year-olds – organiser defends pilot amid pupil pressure fears
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Jul 14, 2017
Three stars and a wish: my end-of-year report card for the DfE
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Jul 14, 2017
Our children’s education has been wrecked by Sats. Time to say no more | Letters
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Jul 13, 2017
NAHT warns testing culture must change as students are marked down for the shape of semi-colons
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Jul 12, 2017
Don’t throw the SATs out with their administrator
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Jul 12, 2017
Pupils lose marks for unshapely semicolons
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Jul 12, 2017
Don’t judge schools by SATS data alone, says NAHT
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Jul 11, 2017
Teachers attack 'punctuation police' after pupils are docked marks for incorrectly drawn commas
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Jul 11, 2017
#Satsshambles: Heads demand publication of 'secret' marking guidance
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Jul 11, 2017
Ten-year-olds denied SATs marks because of semi-colons that fail to meet Government shape and size standards
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Jul 11, 2017
Teachers raise concerns over Sats marking
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Jul 11, 2017
Primary school children lose marks in Sats tests for misshapen commas
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Jul 10, 2017
#Satsshambles: Teachers angered by 'unprecedented' marking errors
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Jul 10, 2017
Sats: One in 10 teachers 'forced to cheat'
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Jul 7, 2017
Teachers outraged as pupils marked down for correct answer in SPaG test
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Jul 7, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 7 July 2017
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Jul 7, 2017
Sats reform could threaten future of infant schools
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Jul 7, 2017
Majority of teachers think Sats are unfair, snap poll finds
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Jul 6, 2017
My child won't benefit from Sats exams – so we're boycotting them
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Jul 6, 2017
Four in ten pupils fail to meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths tests at the end of primary school
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Jul 4, 2017
Statistics: key stage 2
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Jul 4, 2017
National curriculum assessments: key stage 2, 2017 (interim)
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Jul 4, 2017
Primary school tests show schools rising to the challenge
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Jul 4, 2017
Interim KS2 national attainment data published
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Jul 4, 2017
KS2 scaled score conversion tables
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Jul 4, 2017
Key stage 2 assessment results
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Jul 4, 2017
SATs place primary schools under too much pressure
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Jul 4, 2017
SATs results
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Jul 4, 2017
SATs are not fit for purpose and are damaging for children’s education
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Jul 4, 2017
SATs tests reveal reading, writing and maths standard unmet by two in five primary pupils
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Jul 4, 2017
Four out of 10 primary school pupils fail to pass Sats exams
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Jul 4, 2017
Primary tests: Two-fifths fail to meet standard
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Jul 4, 2017
Two in five Sats pupils fail 3Rs as critics say schools are still not teaching new system properly
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Jul 4, 2017
Sats results show 39% of primary pupils failed to meet standard
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Jul 4, 2017
KS2 results confirm children are capable of rising to the challenge of tougher exams
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Jul 4, 2017
Key stage 2 SATs results: 61% achieve ‘expected standard’
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Jul 4, 2017
Sats: 61 per cent of pupils reach expected standard in three Rs
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Jul 4, 2017
Scaled scores for 2017 key stage 2 SATs announced
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Jul 4, 2017
Sats: Threshold scores revealed amid mixed reaction from heads
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Jul 4, 2017
Take Sats results 'with pinch of salt', says head teachers chief
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Jul 4, 2017
Sats: Today's results should be taken 'with a pinch of salt', heads warn
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Jul 4, 2017
Don’t judge schools by SATS data alone, says NAHT
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Jul 3, 2017
Sats: Anxious wait for test results in reading, writing and maths
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Jul 3, 2017
Research round-up 23 June 2017
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Jun 27, 2017
NUT survey: SATs having damaging consequences for both children and schools
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Jun 25, 2017
Education experts unhappy with DfE primary testing plans
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Jun 23, 2017
Ofsted to punish schools pushing exam targets over learning, says chief
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Jun 23, 2017
Spielman says inspectors will look ‘more closely’ at schools’ curriculums
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Jun 23, 2017
Silence (from politicians) is golden
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Jun 23, 2017
Heads say baseline assessments should not be formal tests of 4-year-olds
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Jun 22, 2017
We can and must do better for our primary children – ATL responds to primary assessment consultations
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Jun 22, 2017
Teachers disagree with government over best year for baseline assessment
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Jun 21, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 16 June 2017
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Jun 16, 2017
Outrage as national leadership role threatened over discredited 2016 Sats results
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Jun 15, 2017
Who is Justine Greening and what has she done as Education Secretary?
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Jun 12, 2017
NAHT comment on the general election result
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Jun 9, 2017
How were the standards set for this year's KS1 SATs?
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Jun 6, 2017
2017 scaled scores for key stage 1 tests published
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Jun 6, 2017
Sats tests: why cheating and cramming mean the numbers don’t add up
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Jun 6, 2017
Sats: Jump in marks needed for seven-year-olds to reach expected standard in reading
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Jun 5, 2017
Voting for education
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Jun 1, 2017
Politician takes grammar test to highlight Sats stress
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May 31, 2017
General election special: How the election might affect you
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May 28, 2017
UKIP pledges to open new grammar school ‘in every town’
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May 25, 2017
This year's Sats paper 'more readable'
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May 23, 2017
Schools spend thousands of pounds on ‘question banks’ to improve GCSEs and SATs scores
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May 23, 2017
Primary school headmistress puts her job on the line and boycotts SATs exams for 11-year-olds because they are 'too stressful for pupils'
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May 22, 2017
Can you out-Spag an 11-year-old? Try this test
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May 22, 2017
Headteacher bans primary school kids from taking SATs
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May 22, 2017
Greens promise universal early education and later formal school start
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May 22, 2017
Head risks job by refusing to enter pupils for Sats
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May 19, 2017
Leeds headteacher bans 'ridiculous' SATS tests
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May 19, 2017
Schools told to expect more Sats 'chaos' as moderators fail to mark pupils' work correctly
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May 19, 2017
More Sats 'chaos' as two thirds of moderators fail to assess pupils' work correctly
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May 19, 2017
NAHT response to the Conservative manifesto
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May 18, 2017
Conservative manifesto
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May 18, 2017
Liberal Democrats’ Manifesto
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May 17, 2017
Labour manifesto pledges £25bn package for education
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May 16, 2017
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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May 16, 2017
Labour manifesto: the full list of schools policies
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May 16, 2017
Teacher sabbaticals promised by Labour
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May 16, 2017
Suicide prevention hotline receives surge in calls from teens over ‘serious’ exam stress
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May 16, 2017
NAHT response to the Labour manifesto
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May 16, 2017
ATL comment on the Labour Party’s manifesto
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May 16, 2017
SATs exam Twitter leak sees government tell parents to delete posts over cheating fears
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May 15, 2017
Green Party pledges to abolish 'pointless' Sats
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May 15, 2017
Abolition of SATs among Green pledges to reform school system
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May 15, 2017
Can split digraphs help children learn to read and write?
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May 13, 2017
Diary of Sats Week: It all started with a Special Sats Breakfast served with a slice of fear and a mug of uncertainty...
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May 12, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 12 May 2017
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May 12, 2017
DfE reprimands parents for tweeting Sats test questions
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May 12, 2017
Priorities for a new government: advice from our academics part 2
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May 12, 2017
Exam stress is causing thousands of UK children to require counselling, says Childline
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May 12, 2017
Rising numbers of pupils calling helpline with exam stress
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May 12, 2017
Parents slammed by Department for Education for tweeting answers from their children's SATs exams
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May 11, 2017
Parents told off by Department for Education after tweeting answers to SATs exams
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May 11, 2017
Sats: Children left in tears after their final maths test
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May 11, 2017
How can parents help students survive the exam season?
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May 11, 2017
Can you pass a SATs exam for 11-year-olds?
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May 11, 2017
Full list of schools policies in leaked Labour manifesto
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May 11, 2017
Holidays and games consoles – how parents reward pupils for passing exams
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May 10, 2017
This Mental Health Awareness week, let’s look at the bigger picture
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May 9, 2017
Battle on the adverbials front: grammar advisers raise worries about Sats tests and teaching
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May 9, 2017
Daily roundup 9 May: Schools funding, foster care inquiry, and homework
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May 9, 2017
Pressure of tests 'making children physically sick'
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May 9, 2017
How many of these SATs exam questions designed for year six pupils can you answer?
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May 8, 2017
It's time to stop demonising SATs - we need to test 11-year-olds
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May 8, 2017
"I'm in charge of worrying - you don’t need to": Teacher's inspirational 'homework' for pupils facing SATs exams
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May 8, 2017
Sats: Reading test 'kinder' than last year
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May 8, 2017
Three-quarters of primary leaders lack confidence in SATs, survey finds
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May 8, 2017
Why are my wife and I quitting teaching? Brutal cuts, bad policies and stressed kids | Peter Foggo
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May 8, 2017
The true impact of SATs exams: 'My daughter should be daydreaming and be full of wonder - not full of stress'
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May 8, 2017
Could you answer these primary school maths questions? (video)
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May 8, 2017
A headteacher shares his game plan for Sats week
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May 7, 2017
Top TES articles of the week: it's all about SATs and GCSEs
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May 7, 2017
Low-attainers ‘harshly’ marked in SATs assessments, study finds
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May 7, 2017
Poor pupils with same SATs as richer peers do worse in grammar schools test
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May 5, 2017
Morpurgo: 'Dark spider' of Sats is bringing fear to classrooms
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May 2, 2017
SATs results put too much pressure on primary schools
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May 1, 2017
SATs are critically flawed - ATL
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May 1, 2017
'High-stakes' testing harming teaching and learning in primary schools
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May 1, 2017
Sats tests endangering children's learning and mental health, MPs warn
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May 1, 2017
Children's education at risk over 'high-stakes' testing, MPs warn
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May 1, 2017
Reform 'high stakes' primary tests, MPs urge
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May 1, 2017
Exams should not be given such 'high stakes' because they damage wellbeing
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May 1, 2017
The 13 ways MPs want primary tests improved
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May 1, 2017
Stop judging primary schools on one year’s SATs results, say MPs
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May 1, 2017
More primary school children suffering stress from Sats, survey finds
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May 1, 2017
Primary pupils ‘turned off reading by complex tests’
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May 1, 2017
High-stakes Sats 'harming pupil wellbeing and learning'
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May 1, 2017
Education committee right to call for an end to ‘high stakes’ assessment, says NAHT
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Apr 30, 2017
Sats tests: exam results 'manipulated for political agenda'
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Apr 29, 2017
Election ‘highly likely’ to delay national funding formula, NAHT warns
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Apr 28, 2017
Headteachers reject idea of boycotting Sats
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Apr 28, 2017
“Uneasy peace” breaks out as heads back proposed Sats reforms
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Apr 28, 2017
Speed and fluency 'as important as accuracy' for good writing, finds research
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Apr 28, 2017
One in 10 Kent children fails 11-plus but achieves high Sats results, analysis shows
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Apr 27, 2017
Primary assessment report to be published
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Apr 26, 2017
Daily roundup 19 April: Football abuse, bullying and primary testing
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Apr 19, 2017
Teachers opt not to disrupt primary tests
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Apr 18, 2017
NUT will 'break' primary assessment unless Sats are changed, says Courtney
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Apr 18, 2017
Teachers could boycott key primary school tests amid concerns over pupil pressure
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Apr 17, 2017
Primary test could face new boycott
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Apr 17, 2017
'Sats make children feel like failures'
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Apr 16, 2017
Teachers threaten to boycott primary school tests
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Apr 16, 2017
Teachers back moves towards primary Sats boycott
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Apr 16, 2017
Sats boycott moves closer after NUT motion calls for ballots
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Apr 16, 2017
NUT delegates denounce Sats, as union paves way for boycott
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Apr 16, 2017
Teachers threaten boycott to kill off primary school tests: Major union votes to shun SATs exams because of fears they cause 'stress' to children
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Apr 13, 2017
Teachers back possible primary test boycott
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Apr 12, 2017
Teachers union threatens to boycott primary school tests weeks after Government 'caved in' over Sats
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Apr 12, 2017
ATL votes overwhelmingly to 'explore' Sats boycott
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Apr 12, 2017
We need to stop saying 'I'm crap at maths' like it's a badge of honour, says Rachel Riley
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Apr 5, 2017
Baseline provider ‘surprised’ at DfE preference for formal reception test
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Apr 5, 2017
Brian Cox: Don't use children as 'measurement probes' to test schools
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Apr 3, 2017
Scrapping SATs for 7-year-olds is good news but we should get rid of them for KS2 students too
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Apr 1, 2017
Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in March 2017
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Mar 31, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 31 March 2017
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Mar 31, 2017
Tests at age 7 scrapped to lift burden on pupils and teachers
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Mar 31, 2017
Ministers pave way to scrap Sats tests for seven-year-olds
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Mar 30, 2017
Voice welcomes consultation on reforms to primary assessment system
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Mar 30, 2017
Sats: What you need to know about the government's plans to fix primary assessment
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Mar 30, 2017
Sats for seven-year-olds set to be scrapped
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Mar 30, 2017
Sats tests for seven-year-olds in England set to be scrapped
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Mar 30, 2017
Primary assessment consultation: The 5 key proposals
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Mar 30, 2017
Government proposes scrapping tests for 7-year-olds
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Mar 30, 2017
Greening proposes scrapping KS1 SATs
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Mar 30, 2017
'Unnecessary' national tests to be scrapped for seven year olds
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Mar 30, 2017
EYFS Profile and new Reception baseline included in primary assessment consultation
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Mar 30, 2017
Campaigners slam reception baseline plans
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Mar 30, 2017
Ministers pave way to scrap Sats tests for seven-year-olds
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Mar 30, 2017
Government consults on rehash of failed baseline assessment proposals
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Mar 30, 2017
Government to consider scrapping Sats tests for seven-year-olds
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Mar 30, 2017
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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Feb 23, 2017
Schools Minister questioned on primary assessment
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Feb 22, 2017
Primary school pupils to be checked on times tables before entering secondary school
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Feb 22, 2017
Nick Gibb: Sats 'didn't go as smoothly as we would have hoped'
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Feb 22, 2017
Primary school test breaches 'unlikely to have been spotted', Ofqual official says
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Feb 22, 2017
Schools Minister questioned on primary assessment
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Feb 17, 2017
'Unreliable' Sats data used to deny teachers pay rises
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Jan 30, 2017
Primary assessment: 5 reforms proposed by experts today
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Jan 18, 2017
Scrapping primary school levels 'has made teacher training harder'
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Jan 18, 2017
End tests for seven-year-olds and bring back Reception baseline assessment, say heads
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Jan 18, 2017
School SAT tables: Results for every London state primary
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Dec 16, 2016
Family values and performing arts at England's top primary school
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Dec 16, 2016
Almost half of children leave primary school unable to read and write properly, performance tables reveal
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Dec 15, 2016
Sats results own goal averted as DfE moves the goalposts
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Dec 15, 2016
School league tables out after test 'chaos'
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Dec 15, 2016
Shifting the goalposts: What we can (and can't) learn from this year's primary school results
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Dec 15, 2016
2016 key stage 2 SATs: Fewer primary schools below floor standards
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Dec 15, 2016
Thousands of primary schools' rankings upended by new Sats
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Dec 15, 2016
Primary schools are rising to the challenge posed by our reforms
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Dec 15, 2016
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Dec 15, 2016
ATL comment on key stage 2 SATs results
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Dec 15, 2016
Primary assessment: Five reasons teachers are calling for reforms to the system
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Dec 14, 2016
Primary test reforms are ‘some of the worst ever seen’, MPs told by teachers
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Dec 14, 2016
Primary Assessment impact on teaching, learning and pupil wellbeing examined
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Dec 14, 2016
End the misuse of assessment, says NAHT
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Dec 13, 2016
Wales is flunking Pisa because it scrapped SAT tests, says schools inspector
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Dec 7, 2016
Infant schools three times as likely as juniors to get top Ofsted rating
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Nov 28, 2016
Sats: Maths tests guidance changed after DfE gets sum wrong
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Nov 22, 2016
Academy conversion does not improve primary Sats scores
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Nov 21, 2016
Assessment and visiting the Education Select Committee
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Nov 20, 2016
Primary Assessment: Committee publishes written evidence
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Nov 18, 2016
Primary heads condemn use of 'meaningless' test results for judging schools
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Nov 18, 2016
The EBacc effect – teachers’ anger at narrowing curriculum
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Nov 16, 2016
NUT and King’s College London research into Key Stage 4
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Nov 14, 2016
Nine in 10 teachers say Progress 8 has increased workload, study shows
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Nov 14, 2016
Primary test agency poor value, says minister
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Nov 9, 2016
Sats leak inquiry uncovers 'substantial issues' at Standards and Testing Agency
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Nov 9, 2016
Ethnic-minority pupils 'more likely to attend grammars than white children with same Sats scores'
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Nov 7, 2016
Rise in appeals against ‘tougher’ Key Stage 2 SATs tests
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Nov 3, 2016
New coalition of parents and teachers calls for 'toxic' Sats to be suspended after pupils left in tears
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Nov 3, 2016
Union ballots on Sats boycott as MPs call for testing to be suspended
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Oct 27, 2016
Plan to force 11-year-olds to resit failed tests scrapped in fresh U-turn
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Oct 20, 2016
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Oct 19, 2016
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Oct 19, 2016
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Oct 19, 2016
NAHT comment on government changes to assessment
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Oct 19, 2016
Justine Greening announcement on primary assessment
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Oct 19, 2016
U-turn on secondary school Sats resits
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Oct 19, 2016
Plans to make pupils resit Sats axed
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Oct 19, 2016
Secondary school Sats resits scrapped
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Oct 19, 2016
Sats: Greening ditches Year 7 resits and promises two years without new tests
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Oct 19, 2016
Greening – 'I am listening to teachers on Sats'
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Oct 19, 2016
Sats: Unions welcome primary assessment review but want to see more details
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Oct 19, 2016
Sats analysis: five ways for ministers to prove they are really listening to primary teachers on assessment
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Oct 19, 2016
Major SATs U-turn as resits for children who fail primary school tests are scrapped by Education Secretary
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Oct 19, 2016
Ministers scrap controversial plans for compulsory exam resits for 11-year-olds who fail maths and literacy tests
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Oct 19, 2016
Sats: Teachers crank up classroom creativity ahead of possible boycott
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Oct 17, 2016
Unions closer to Sats boycott despite expectation of 'serious' DfE changes
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Oct 12, 2016
KS1 data shows the expected standard was not realistic
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Sep 29, 2016
Headteacher banned from classroom for life after helping pupils cheat in exams
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Sep 29, 2016
Headteacher banned from classroom for life after helping pupils cheat in exams
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Sep 29, 2016
Sats: Big fall in number of seven-year-olds reaching expected standards under tougher testing regime
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Sep 29, 2016
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