Mr Gove is back in the headlines again and this time his reforms and new policies to overhaul the national curriculum and exams have raised the ire of the literary and academic elite. Nearly 200 people, including children’s laureate Malorie Blackman said they are “gravely concerned”, and have signed an open letter, published in The Times.
They wrote: “Competition between children through incessant testing and labelling results is a public sense of failure for the vast majority. The drive towards ever-higher attainment in national tests leads inevitably to teaching to the test, which narrows the range of learning experiences. Harmful stress is put on young people, their parents and their teachers.”
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