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Elect Martin Powell-Davies:Defending Teachers, Defending Education |
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Martin attends Anti-SATS Alliance National ConferenceOn Saturday, June 12th, Martin was the only one of the four General Secretary candidates to attend the national conference of the Anti SATs Alliance at Imperial College, London. Teachers, parents, governors, Heads and academics attended and discussed a number of themes including:
The meeting ended on a positive note – taking up a theme that Martin had injected into the workshop discussion: the Union can win its battle to stop SATs and league tables damaging education by building support for action to boycott SATs once more. The Anti-SATS Alliance’s work in researching the damage caused by SATs and developing alternative assessment methods can be crucial in that campaign. Next time we ballot, teachers needed to know not just what they were voting to boycott but also what kind of assessment they were going to put in place of SATs – methods that protected both children’s education and teachers’ workload. |
email martin@electmartin.org.uk
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