Did you know that England tops the league table of rote-learning in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)? More time is spent in English classrooms preparing for tests and less time is spent on learning.
This is no surprise to me. I only have to think about the test mania which is currently engulfing both primary and secondary schools, and the angst of teachers who do not have the information they need either on the test format, or the pass mark.
(And this is before I consider the government’s incompetence and the small matter of the key stage 1 spelling test proudly displayed on the Standards and Testing Agency’s website months before it was due to be sat by 700,000 seven-year-olds.)
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