Cambridge review of UK primary education systems

This is the most comprehensive independent review done on the UK education systems in the last 40 years. It is very telling and worth a read as it suggests the government has gone down the wrong path - narrowing the curriculum and placing children's education at the whim of a testing regime. Sadly the UK Labour government has distanced itself from it preferring their own commissioned report which endorses what they are doing. The crux of the Cambridge review criticizes government control of classrooms and teaching via testing and standards and suggests that the curriculum is more narrow than in the Victorian era. Their recommendations are pretty much what is happening in New Zealand (before National suggested National Standards).

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