Ministers face Sats scrap pressure [newsletter.co.uk]
- Published: 03 August 2010
Ministers have come under renewed pressure to scrap Sats as results showed reading standards among 11-year-olds slipped for a second consecutive year.
More than a third of pupils also left primary school without a proper grasp of the basics in reading, writing and maths, National Curriculum test results revealed.
But youngsters are getting better overall at English and maths.
The Government was forced to disregard results in more than 20 local authorities, which were rendered "statistically unrepresentative" by a boycott which saw tens of thousands of children not sitting the tests.
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