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A Life of Tests Is No Preparation for the Tests of Life

Professor Guy Claxton | Posted 17.11.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Professor Guy Claxton

Where have we gone so wrong when Michael Gove acknowledges only two kinds of education - traditional (good) and progressive (bad) - and insists on turning the clock back to a form of testing that while having some benefits (rigour, an ability to discriminate amongst the 'brightest' ) self-evidently entails severe costs?