Michael Rosen
published an open letter to Nicky Morgan, UK Education Secretary in the
Guardian:
Dear Ms Morgan: this isn’t education, it’s testing,
testing, testing
Some quotes:
"A secondary pupil in
year 9 can expect to be doing a sit-down test at the rate of one a week for a
whole year. The system is becoming instruct-and-test over smaller and smaller
time spans."
"At the very moment when the human
condition is at its most curious, when the environment we adults construct can
as easily foster that curiosity as slap it down, you are guaranteeing that many
parents will focus on thinking that education is about doing tests."
"I can’t stop myself from
imagining how a government could divert the time, effort and money being
devoted to testing four-, five- and six-year-olds into the support of their
reading through school libraries, local libraries and paid, trained librarians."
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