…Results from the Standard Assessment Tests (SATs) show only a marginal improvement in the proportion of children attaining the targets in English, maths and science in the past 12 months.
Teachers' leaders have warned that focusing on easily measured, narrowly-defined ministerial quotas is unrealistic and undermines schools' efforts to excel across a range of subjects.
The Government has decreed that by next year, 85 per cent of pupils should reach the defined benchmark in the three subjects as part of its back-to-basics campaign to drive up achievement.
Today's results show that in maths, despite a 1 per cent increase, only 75 per cent attained the desired level of achievement. An increase of 1 per cent was also recorded in English, with 79 per cent reaching the target…
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