The UK’s National Governors’ Association is calling for an end to the current system of league tables and national tests, saying the tables held information that was too narrow and misrepresented what happened in schools. Instead it wants schools to be given a grade based on comparisons with others in similar circumstances, and tests that check individual pupils’ progress.
While testing and similar traditional methods are useful tools in education, this call bythe NGA underlines the increasing awareness that flexible curricula and more practical learning are necessary improvements that achieve results economically. It is ironic that the UK’s shadow education minister conicidentally expressed the desire to have children reading by the age of 6. He’s obviously not been reading the research that encourages more attention to emotional intelligence development in early years, so that cognitive development in teen years is quicker and broader.
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