One less test for schoolchildren
From Times Wire Reports
British students will have one less test to take.
Education Secretary Ed Balls said the government was scrapping its national testing of 14-year-olds in math, reading and science.
Like in the United States, British parents and teachers have complained that kids are over-tested and that non-tested subjects are getting squeezed out.
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