The Cambridge Primary Review, the largest assessment of primary schooling in England for 40 years, said making children start school at five was too early, and play-based learning should go on for another year.
It also criticised the government's centralisation of the education system, and called for Sats and league tables to be scrapped.
The three-year report, which was funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, said that while primary schools were under great pressure in general they were doing a "good job".
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