Sats for 14-year-olds scrapped !

An announcement by Ed Balls earlier today that tests for 14 year olds are to be scrapped but the tests taken at the end of primary school by 11 year olds, and used for league tables, will remain.

Here was the chance to make a real difference to the way schools operated and now it has potentially gone.

Head teachers' leader Mick Brookes welcomed the removal of tests at 14, but said that not stopping tests at 11 was "an opportunity missed to extract some dignity from the tests and marking debacle seen earlier this year".

So near yet so, so far !!

... and what is worse we are looking to the USA and their 'report card' system to further de-personalise information being reported back to parents.