Labour education U-turn scraps Sats tests for 14-year-olds

Twelve years after it was instituted, the stage three tests in the UK for 14-year-olds has been scrapped. It's a U-turn for Labour, which has supported the reforms, instituted by the Tories in the early '90s, for many years. The tests were a crucial part in determining a...

UK scraps SATs for 14-year-olds

After the diasaster that marred the SAT process earlier this year with some SAT papers still not marked and returned to schools Education Secretary Ed Balls announced that the British Government has decided to...

4-year-olds sex education probe

The headline makes this more sensational than it is with the emphasis at 4 years old being on building good relationships. Young people tell us that the ins and outs of sex education are pretty well taught but the...

Muslims' fury forces schools to shelve anti-homophobia storybooks for 5-year-...

"Muslims' fury forces schools to shelve anti-homophobia storybooks for 5-year-oldsBy LAURA CLARK - More by this author »Last updated at 21:10pm on 1st April 2008 Comments Two primary schools have withdrawn...

NY Times Study On Women 'Living Without Spouse' Included 15-Year-Olds

"This morning, NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein reported (here) how CBS anchors yucked it up over a front-page story in today's New York Times that blared, "51% of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse." This study is nothing to laugh at. It's incredibly misleading, if not...

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