Index Of School Readiness Highlights Importance Of Family Support

Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 09:20 in Psychology & Sociology

The U.K. government has indicated that it wishes to introduce testing for all children at Reception (when they first enter school at age four) this year. These tests seek to provide baseline assessments of a child’s ‘school readiness’ but teacher unions have criticized testing as being too narrowly focused and likely to add to the difficulties of an already challenging period for both children and their teachers. read more

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