Reforming schools? This is more like a doomed exercise in control freakery | Simon Jenkins

Her primary testing regime has run into trouble – as, inevitably, will the rest of Nicky Morgan’s plans to turn schools into places fit only for robots

There is only one purpose in the government’s chaotic regime for primary school testing. It is control. No wonder headteachers are up in arms. The latest proposals for testing seven-year-olds have been variously delayed, leaked, abandoned and accused of “lacking in clarity”. They will, the teachers’ leader Russell Hobby said this week, “no long...