How Not To Bore The Pants Off Our Kids!
Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen
will present a public event on this topic in Ealing Town Hall, London W5 2BY, at 6pm Thursday 28 February.
Click here for details of this FREE event.
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More testing madness. The Guardian's Jenni Russell asks why we persisit with the current regime.
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Read the government's Children's Plan yet? Have a look at this critique and then ask yourself if it will address the real problems in our schools.
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Could there be such a thing as a productivity deal for schools and education?
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Raising the leaving age to 18? A good idea or not?
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Click here for a review of this important new book about the tyrrany of testing
A new school year - and a time to show that testing has had its day.
Look out in school for the new 
pamphlet, with a foreword from children's laureate Michael Rosen, explaining why the testing regime has had its day. For a preview of the pamphlet, click here and to order copies, click here.
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Statement from the North of England Rethinking Education Conference, Bolton. March 2007
- We campaign for publicly funded, comprehensive education accessible to all.
- No role for private finance or big business
- We oppose all academies and trust schools in favour of well resourced state funded schools catering for the local community, education workers and students rather than the needs of big business.
- We oppose compulsory testing of children in favour of curricula based on how students learn and what they wish to learn.
- We call on the national executives of the the teaching and education unions to launch a national campaign for these objectives, particularly against academies and trust schools.
- We support action by education workers and community campaigns that further these aims.
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