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Time to teach
Time to teach
Children in England are now the most tested in Europe, yet there is little evidence that the Government’s obsession with testing and targets has improved standards. Liberal Democrats believe that teachers should be given more time to teach and that testing should have a clear purpose: to improve learning for individual children. We will reduce the level of external testing, replacing compulsory tests at seven and eleven with a system of sampling against national standards. Teachers will regularly assess pupils’ performance, using the results to inform teaching and give parents accurate information on their child’s progress.