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TEACHERS’ union NUT warned of schools being “forcibly academised” yesterday after the Tories announced plans to make students with poor results resit their SATs in secondary school.
The move would see 100,000 pupils take new English and maths exams in the first year of secondary school due to David Cameron’s promises of “more rigour, zero tolerance of failure and mediocrity.”
NUT general secretary Christine Blower said: “Schools are being forced to jump through ever smaller hoops to ‘prove’ their effectiveness.
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