Sentence examples for testing and league from inspiring English sources

More flexibility over testing and league tables is also needed.

There are, though, real differences between ministers and the NAHT (and most other educational organisations) over testing and league tables.

Testing and league tables are popular with many parents, and league tables are particularly prized by the tabloid newspapers; bluntly, they sell newspapers.

Perhaps it was curiosity that led this patent clerk to become such a great physicist, and perhaps it is curiosity that our schools should cherish, rather than testing and league tables.

It says they have exaggerated progress, narrowed the curriculum by squeezing out space for history, music and arts, and left children stressed-out by the testing and league table system.

Reforms to testing, exams and league tables, which take no account of context, seem likely to impact those schools more severely, especially if linked to Ofsted judgments.

Avoid all playground or pub conversations about tests, exams and league tables.

He lives in a whirl of reading lists, tests, targets and league tables.

It warns that children are "over-tested, over-worked and in a school system that places more importance on test results and league tables than children's happiness and joy of learning".

These exams then yield narrow test scores, and league tables built on those basis – which then generates a demand for the kind of narrow teaching that produces this tutoring arms race.

The Let Our Kids Be Kids campaign wants parents to keep their children off primary school, saying they are "over-tested, over-worked and in a school system that places more importance of test results and league tables than children's happiness and joy of learning".