Research for the Teachers Under Pressure report was conducted over a five-year period. John MacBeath and Maurice Galton discovered that primary teachers' workload has increased from 54 hours per week to 56 hours. They found that newly qualified teachers felt their initial freshness of thinking was diminished by the government's national strategies. The report criticised the pressure placed on teachers to deliver performance-based and formulaic lessons and "the tyranny of assessment" they find themselves under. It said creativity in teaching had been lost...