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Your Opinion: Letters
Nursery World,
10 July 2008
Letter of the week
THE QUESTIONS TO ASK The research with which the Government tries to justify ever-earlier learning and assessment is woefully inadequate (News, 26 June). It just compares FS performance with KS1 performance. To be fair, the research is robust (a sample of 48,000 children isn't bad), but it fails to ask or answer a single interesting question. All it 'discovers' is that those who can answer FS questions well at five years old are, surprise, surprise, also more able to answer KS1 questions at seven years old. This is laughable. The research doesn't even compare performance at...
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