GCSE students fail politics test
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The vast majority of GCSE students do not know even the most basic facts about British politics, according to a new poll.
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England's secondary schools should drop GCSEs and A-levels for a diploma, a report says - but reaction is mixed.
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Gordon Brown's plan to reward teenagers with "good behaviour cards" has been dropped.
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Â· Sats make English pupils most tested in the world  Â· Parents sceptical of league tables, GTC study finds
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By Jennifer Toomer-Cook Deseret Morning News  Maybe it's time, now that some 3,700 high school graduates have diplomas saying they failed the high school exit exam, for some alternatives to the Utah Basic Skills Competency Test, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. said Tuesday.
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Standardized tests are nightmarish for many students--even when everything proceeds normally. But what happens when things go horribly wrong?
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Government figures show only 15% of white working class boys in England got five good GCSEs  last year.
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The United Kingdom has slipped significantly down the world education league, particularly in maths, a report said yesterday. In the second round of tests conducted by the Programme
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GCSE coursework will be scrapped for most academic subjects following a report by exam watchdogs.
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GCSE language students could cease taking oral tests because they are "too stressful", a report says.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker on why inspectors say citizenship lessons in England's schools are inadequate.
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An Ofsted study of children's first years of learning shows weaknesses in literacy and calculation.
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The state is failing children in care as most leave without any qualifications, a report by a think tank says.
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The government's exams advisers have told it that its plans for two new maths GCSEs are not going to work.
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A Welsh assembly review brands the failings in the provision of special needs education a 'blight on young lives'
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More schools in England were judged to be failing last year - but as a proportion,  fewer were in such trouble.
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Head teachers say the system of external exams in England and Wales is "out of control" and needs reform.