Paul Fisher, Head of Oakridge Primary School in Stafford, England, saw his standardised test scores among the best in the country in 2012. Dismissing the showering of praise, Paul instead argued for the removal of formal testing, claiming that their students’ successes owed more to the 90 field trips they’d undertaken rather than relentless test preparation. “It is a shame in this country that we’ve got a Government that’s trying to take us back to the Edwardian period with a focus on feeding children facts. Do we want a society that’s great at pub quizzes or one that’s great at thinking and
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