National tests for 14-year-old school pupils in England are to be scrapped, following this summer's Sats marking "shambles". Tests taken at the end of primary school by 11-year-olds, and used for league tables, will remain. Children's Secretary Ed Balls says this is "not a u-turn" - and that the wider principle of the need for testing and accountability remained.
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