rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/four-year-olds-dont-need-exams?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-four-year-olds-dont-need-exams' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> More Than A Score https://actionnetwork.org/groups/more-than-a-score-2 https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg The Department for Education plans to spend £10 million rolling out exams for every four-year-old entering school. Overwhelmingly the evidence, and consensus from experts around the world, says these kinds of tests on young children are both pointless and damaging. If so-called Baseline Assessment goes ahead in 2020, every four-year-old will be tested in their first six weeks in school, using a 20-minute one-to-one test. The results will inevitably be unreliable, as two previous expensive and abandoned trials proved. At four years old children are just too young for this kind of high-stakes testing. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/four-year-olds-dont-need-exams