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From Abacus to Circle Time: A Short History of the Primary School

Education journalist Mike Baker traces the controversial changes to the ways we have educated our youngest children over the past 150 years

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Broadcast Tue, 29 Sep 2009, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 but not available on BBC iPlayer.

3/3. The era of the literacy hour, league tables and SATs controversy.

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