There are times, working in the field of education, when I despair at the interference of politicians. The introduction of testing at age seven, announced last week by education secretary Nicky Morgan, was one of those moments.
I know I am the editor of SecEd, but this primary issue is important – we will soon have a primary system which tests children as they enter at reception, tests them as they leave in year 6, and now will test them in the middle – at age seven.
Why? The Department for Education says it is so we can be “really confident that students are progressing well through primary school”.
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