Bjorklund: Red-Green are terrified of samples – Expressen

Jan Björklund accusing Gustav Fridolin to be the government’s “fuzzy Minister”.

– In the red-green school policy is to terrified of tests and grades, he argues.

the Minister of Education responds with a laugh:

– Björklund are old enough to remember the television program “Have you heard this before?” …

the background to the new pajkastningen between former education minister Jan Björklund (L) and his successor Gustav Fridolin (MP) is the investigation of a new national system for assessment of knowledge , which was submitted to the Government on Thursday.

the investigator Tommy Lagergren proposes that the national tests in year three will be replaced by “mandatory national diagnostic assessment support.”

– this proposal is really bad. Of all the educational reforms that alliance government implemented it is my assessment that this is the most important, to early to have a large and wide track of what students have learned so that you can put into using and steps for those who can not keep up, says Jan Björklund continues:

– remove national tests are examples of the red-green fuzzy school policy which is terrified of tests and grades.

But according Gustav Fridolin, Jan Björklund deliberately misunderstood investigator conclusions.

– We will of course introduce a reading-writing-arithmetic guarantee for the early years and it will contain samples. Samples are necessary. But to administer copying of the national tests and correction of the data that a computer just as well be correct, it is unnecessary administration. It steals time from the teacher, and the time goes by students.

According to Fridolin, he and Bjorklund actually agreed that the national tests are important and should be retained.

– It’s how they should be implemented, when and with what purpose. Today there is a mess in this. I can also remind Mr. Bjorklund that it was he who gave Tommy Lagergren asked to look at this.

Jan Björklund again:

– Tests and grades are not unnecessary administration. It is an important part of teaching in every national school systems throughout the world.