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  Sats for 14-year-olds are scrapped

  Move triggered by collapse of marking process and high-profile critical reports on the tests

  • Now scrap Sats for 11-year-olds, Balls told
  • Blog: Balls decapitates the Sats system
  • Unions welcome end of secondary Sats
  • Scrapping Sats for 14-year-olds: the background

• Sats don't have all the answers

  More and more secondary schools use their own tests to assess pupils rather than the 'unreliable' Sats Ed Balls has vowed to keep. Fran Abrams investigates

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• New passion for Shakespeare as once again the play's the thing

  Nov 29 2008:

  Letters: Your report (Shakespeare is shunned by schools, November 25) suggests the abolition of the key stage 3 Sats tests may tempt schools to marginalise the teaching of Shakespeare

• Shakespeare suffers slings and arrows of Sats fortune

  Nov 26 2008:

  Half of teachers registered for the RSC's Shakespeare training courses have cancelled since government scrapped Sats

• Shakespeare is shunned in schools

  Nov 25 2008:

  The Bard loses out after key stage 3 English tests are scrapped

• Scrapping Sats is a rash mistake

  Nov 4 2008:

  Why not dismantle the high-stakes edifice, ban league tables, and free Sats to do as they were intended, says Peter Mortimore

• Testing, testing

  Oct 28 2008:

  Should the government scrap primary Sats?

• Bonuses for staff who ran Sats fiasco

  Oct 24 2008:

  All but one of agency workforce to get performance-related extra pay

• Primaries safe from closure, ministers insist

  Oct 22 2008:

  Government squashes speculation that primary schools could be judged as failing and shut down

• Teachers don't mind being accountable, but this was over-regulation

  Oct 22 2008:

  Response: Key stage 3 Sats damaged children's motivation, and that's why we opposed them, says Mary Bousted

• Curb endless test rehearsals, warns adviser

  Oct 21 2008:

  Primary schools spend too much time preparing for testing, Sir Jim Rose tells Commons

• Testing decisions

  Oct 21 2008:

  Primary teaching is handcuffed by Sats, says Mike Baker

• Meddle with them, not us

  Oct 20 2008:

  Peter Preston: If regulation is good for bankers, pause before decrying Sats and league tables for public services

• A bit less testing

  Oct 18 2008:

  Editorial: Critics answered as Sats finally axed, but more changes to assessment system still needed

• Labour's bullying approach to schools

  Oct 17 2008:

  Michael Gove: Government ministers have taken a Whitehall-knows-best attitude to education. Conservatives will offer independence and choice

• One Sat down, two to go

  Oct 17 2008:

  Letter: The original idea behind assessment at key stage 2 and 3 was that it should be teacher assessment, not tests and exams

• One correct answer

  Oct 16 2008:

  Jenni Russell: The abolition of Sats at 14 was a welcome surprise. Now Balls must scrap tests for 11-year-olds too

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