Election offers the chance for education reforms | Letters

The parliamentary select committee report on primary school curriculum and testing (More primary school children suffering stress from Sats, 1 May) provides a welcome commentary on the deleterious effects of high-stakes testing for school league tables.Unfortunately, this proposal, while leading to more stability in the league table figures, will do little to reduce the stress on schools and pupils.There will still be yearly publication of league tables with all the well-known perverse incentive