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Stand Up For Education – and our children
Teacher and anti-testing campaigner LOUISE REGAN says an obsession with exams is ruining childhoods

THE NUT’s Stand Up For Education campaign is our union’s response to the most concerted attacks on education and teachers in generations.

It is based around lessons from the Chicago Teachers Union but it has developed and grown to meet our needs and deal with the attacks we face.

Teachers across the country have used the campaign to engage with union members, parents and the public to put pressure on politicians and to argue for the sort of education system that we believe is needed.

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