Tuesday, May 19, 2009

News at Eleven: An uninspiring regime of testing and targets

in primary schools is damaging education and turning a generation of children off reading, Britain's laureate for children [Michael Rosen] told Reuters.

Michael Rosen is an enthusiastic exponent of reading to children of all ages, but the laureate said the British government's obsession with measuring educational success using standardized tests known as SATs and league tables for schools has left little room for meaningful engagement with books.

from Reuters: Primary school tests kill joy of books: UK laureate

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