Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Education | Protests in England over tests for 11-year-olds | Seattle Times Newspaper

Education | Protests in England over tests for 11-year-olds | Seattle Times Newspaper

Protests in England over tests for 11-year-olds

School test results for 11-year-olds were released Tuesday across England, and one result was certain: A large number of educators and parents consider the tests a waste of time.
The Associated Press
LONDON —
School test results for 11-year-olds were released Tuesday across England, and one result was certain: A large number of educators and parents consider the tests a waste of time.
The results of the Standard Assessments Tests, or SATs, revived a long-running debate about whether the government's determination to rank schools based on standardized tests does anything to improve education. The test has no relation to SATs in the United States, which are used to get into college.
The Department for Education said 4,005 of 15,515 English primary schools chose to boycott
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