School Testing Is A Human Rights Issue
From the MailOnline:
Primary school SATs tests are robbing children of their human rights, the leader of the National Union of Teachers claimed today.
Children have a right to a broad education under international law and should not be made to continually sit exams, Christine Blower said.Her remarks came as a committee of MPs warned that SATs - taken by 11-year-olds in English and maths every spring - were promoting a culture of 'teaching to the test'.The testing regime encourages teachers to drill pupils to pass tests, damaging their education, said the Commons Schools Select Committee.The NUT is in the process of balloting members over a boycott of this year's SATs, due to be taken just four days after the election.The National Association of Head Teachers, representing thousands of primary heads, is balloting its own members over the boycott, which would involve refusing to administer
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