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Children's authors, illustrators and poets Philip Pullman, Quentin Blake, Jamila Gavin, Michael Rosen, Jacqueline Wilson and Bernard Ashley have published a boradside attacking the govenrment's 'literacy hour' and regime of testing.
Rosen questions whether tests tell teachers or parents anything. "The one solid law of testing is that, as people get used to tests, they get better at doing them," he says. "When I am told my child is a level this or level that, I don't know what it means - and I've been involved in this lark for 30 years."
Waiting For A Jamie Oliver: Beyond Bogstandard Literacy is available from www.ncll.org.uk for £4.95
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