Thursday, December 6, 2007

Cheating primaries have test results cancelled

By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Last Updated: 3:00am GMT 06/12/2007

Teachers condemned the excessive pressure of national tests yesterday as it emerged that a string of primary schools had been stripped of their results for cheating.
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Official inquiries at five schools in England uncovered irregularities in tests taken by 11-year-olds this summer.
In some cases, schools were found to have doctored papers after the examinations.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/06/nedu206.xml

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