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Weekly Report - 20 October 2016 (WR-16-41)
ARGENTINA: Tangle over education tests
On 18 and 19 October a total of 1.4m school students in over 30,000 schools took a series of multiple-choice assessment tests in language, mathematics, and natural and social sciences. The government hailed the exercise as a key preparatory step needed to tackle educational under-attainment. The teachers’ unions, however, urged students and schools to boycott the tests, which were described, in contrast, as the beginning of a move to cut public budgets and privatise educational provision.
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