Sats: To Take or Not to Take Tests Is Big Question for Schools ; the Nationwide Union Boycott of This Year's Sats Exams Is Threatening to Divide Schools and Parents. It Is Likely That It Will Be Impossible to Produce School League Tables As a Result of the Action - but Education Correspondent Zena Hawley Asks If It Really Matters?

Derby Evening Telegraph › May 05, 2010

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IN a week's time, some of the county's 11-year-olds will be sitting down to take national tests in English and maths.

How many pupils this will be depends on just how solid is the action by members of the National Association of Head Teachers and the National Union of Teachers.

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Sats: To Take or Not to Take Tests Is Big Question for Schools ; the Nationwide Union Boycott of This Year's Sats Exams Is Threatening to Divide Schools and Parents. It Is Likely That It Will Be Impossible to Produce School League Tables As a Result of the Action - but Education Correspondent Zena Hawley Asks If It Really Matters?

A quick straw poll of schools within Derby reveals the possibility that half will refuse to administer the tests - but some are still undecided, even though the initial union action starts officially today, with staff refusing to handle the tests as they arrive in schools.

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