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Scrapping them may pave the way for schools to provide more specific details of pupils' progress in subjects.
The academics found there were strong links between the speed of pupils' progress and their socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds.
Three new measures of pupils' progress are to be introduced to hold head teachers and ministers to account.
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He said only 15% of the largest academy chains perform above the national average in terms of pupil progress, compared with 44% of council-run schools.
"We are pleased to see the professionalism of school leaders recognised and greater trust placed in teachers as the best judges of pupil progress," he said.
Schools will be required to publish details of their pupils' progress, which will be measured against the average achievement level of all children in England in the same year group.
The average of all pupils' progress scores across 8 subjects will create a school's result.
Like the scepticism that Beane and Brand experience, I often find that there are staff in school that see the use of data in helping pupils progress as the antithesis of teaching.
Bisham school in Windsor and Maidenhead was informed by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust that it was in the top 10% of schools nationally for pupil progress in reading, writing and maths.
That standards agenda includes Labour's literacy and numeracy hours, which instruct how primaries teach the 3Rs, as well as the use of Sats to judge pupils' progress, rate schools in league tables and provide a verdict on the rate of improvements in the system.
The expansion of the amount of data teachers must collect and record for each pupil comes second, followed by the unfair pressure of being judged against unrealistic targets for pupil progress based on national data.
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