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Editor’s Letter
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Welcome to our new-look Education Today. We have overhauled the
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many aspects of school life encountered by education professionals
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on a daily basis.
As the nation heads back to school after another frankly
disappointing British summer, we are faced with the disturbing news
that the number of 11-year-olds passing Sats in English has fallen for
the first time since the exam was introduced in 1995.
An estimated 115,000 children, one in five, left primary school last
month two years behind their classmates, unable to read and write to
the required standard.
There have been calls for the deeply unpopular Sats exams to be
scrapped but the Government continues to stand by them. They have
spent £2 billion since 1997 to improve literacy and numeracy but
results are getting worse and not better.
Let us know what you think. We will run a poll on our website
www.education-today.co.uk – should Sats be scrapped? – have
your say!
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