Tag: education

• Standard Assessment Tests

  Today the nation’s 6-7 and 10-11 year olds (years two and six) will set off for school knowing they have got ‘exams’. Whether it is reasonable to ask that children so early in their educational development should be subjected to pressures associated with standard assessment testing is an open debate.  It certainly deserves a carefully…

  frederick anderson

  May 9, 2016

  Social Comment

  Academia, age, childhood, children, criticism, education, examinations, government, home life, parental ambition, pressure, school, schooling, targets, testing, work-life balance

• Tom’s Story

  I’ll call him Tom. Tom is eighteen years old and he lives in a typical English village.   That is, a small community of chocolate-box cottages with a shop and a pub surrounding a placid village pond.   The outer perimeter of this idyll was blessed in 1948 with the addition of a small clutch of social…

  frederick anderson

  March 11, 2014

  Uncategorized

  Benefits, book, crime, education, Frederick Anderson, misfit, prospects, social housing, society, village