Friday, 13 September 2013

Michael Gove should forget maths and turn to marshmallows | Simon Jenkins

'Any geneticist will tell Gove that assessing children at five is far too late. By then family, friends, carers and teachers will have infected the infant brain.' Illustration by Satoshi
Michael Gove is clearly a wimp. The education secretary's proposal to extend "baseline" testing to five-year-olds is too late. He should start at five months. Everyone knows that five months is the crucial developmental stage, when the infant brain adjusts from teat to tooth and is most vulnerable to parental

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