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Given the potential damage overtesting or inappropriate testing can do, it is very worrying. The high levels of stress that even young children are experiencing as an integral part of the learning process is deeply unhelpful.
One of the recurring themes in education policy over here - and I suspect over there - is the way that good practice and sensible strategy ideas get transformed through political and economic agendas. What ends up in the classroom is what is left after its been through the meat grinder.
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