An article recently published in The Guardian about a major review of education in Britain is interesting and advocates moving away form tests and league tables.
The Cambridge review of primary education has been three years in the making. More than 70 academics have produced 29 reports with thousands of children, parents, teachers and headteachers taking part in surveys across the country. It presents a damning view of the primary curriculum, which it suggests has failed generations of children, as well as a blueprint for a radical new kind of schooling.
Read the whole article here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/feb/20/primary-education-review