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Doubt over assistants' value

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 21 January 2004

The Government's policy of seeking to raise standards in primary schools by introducing more teaching assistants to support teachers in the classroom has been called into question by two education academics.

The Government's policy of seeking to raise standards in primary schools by introducing more teaching assistants to support teachers in the classroom has been called into question by two education academics. Research by Dr Daniel Muijs of Warwick University and Professor David Reynolds of Exeter University has found that low-achieving pupils in Years 1 and 2 who had been assisted by specially trained numeracy support assistants 'did not make...

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