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The end of exploration

April 18, 2016 · by jonturney | in science in schools, Uncategorized | tagged science education, science in school | Leave a comment

Here’s quite an effective parent’s polemic about the soul-destroying obsession with testing in English schools from Zoe Williams in the Guardian today. Hang on, I seem to remember writing something in similar vein for the same paper, long ago. It’s about science SATS, and I obviously felt strongly about it at the time as a […]

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