By Anne Heavey, ATL education policy adviser. The key stage 2 test results this year look very different to results in previous years. The curriculum being assessed is different, the tests are…Read more…
Primary assessment is broken. So what do we want instead?
I think we can say that assessment in primary schools is broken. Many words have been written (including by ATL) about what’s gone wrong this year. The question remains, what do we want instead? I…Read more…
Government wrong on testing says NUT… and the CBI
We fought off Michael Gove’s first attempts to impose the EBacc as a narrow and prescriptive exam by building the widest and most diverse coalition of voices in a campaign. Once again, we see…Read more…