Corbyn’s promise to abolish Sats is merely a crowd pleaser | Fiona Millar

Those who cheer Labour’s plan to end primary school testing forget how we failed pupils in the good old 90s

A few years ago, not long after Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour party, I took part in a packed fringe meeting at the Labour conference. The subject was “Where next for Labour party education policy?”

In response to speeches from the panel, an impassioned young mother spoke movingly about how pressure to perform in primary school tests was destroying her daughter’s love of learning. If only we could get rid of testing, she pleaded.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2E1Y8BN