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Education > Reading & Writing Skills Should schools require more rigorous testing of students to determine literacy levels?

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As a teacher for 12 years in an English primary school (3-11) and mainly teaching upper age groups, I have extensive experience of the testing regime. Wales has long seen the pointlessness of constant testing and Scotland have adjusted their system enough to relieve, what in England has become too much of a focus for too long.

I first started teaching just as the National Curriculum came into enforcement. A good thing but... The government, under pressure to deliver an education system worth the money they had put into developing the NC in a hurry (a political agenda) needed to see resu...

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