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- Jane Austen: A portrait of the artist as a young girl? - The Guardian, Friday June 8, 2012
Analysis points to painting being Jane Austen at 13 and no other professional likeness of the novelist existsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Shakespeare's Curtain theatre unearthed in east London - The Guardian, Wednesday June 6, 2012
Theatre where Romeo and Juliet was first performed is rediscovered in Shoreditch centuries after it was dismantledLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - BlackBerry cupcakes and Googling: new study of UK children's language - The Guardian, Monday May 28, 2012
OUP's 31m-word analysis of writing by British children finds influx of US words alongside influence of Potter and PullmanLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Starting school at seven 'can boost pupils' reading skills' - Daily Telegraph, Friday May 25, 2012
Delaying the school starting age can improve children’s grasp of reading at the end of primary education, according to research from New Zealand
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Authors help tackle 'can read won't read culture' - BBC, Tuesday May 22, 2012
A top children's author is calling for young children in England to be given automatic library membership to tackle the "can read won't read" culture. Michael Rosen also told BBC Radio 4 he blamed an over-emphasis on the teaching of phonics in schools. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Over-reliance on technology is undermining spelling skills - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday May 22, 2012
A generation of “auto-correct” adults are struggling to spell properly after relying on technology to check their work, according to research by Mencap published today. Nick Gibb, the Schools Minister, said: "The failure to test spelling - as well as grammar and punctuation - in exams over the past decade has been a costly one. That is why we will award marks in these key disciplines in GCSEs from September.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor spelling of 'auto-correct generation' revealed - BBC, Tuesday May 22, 2012
Ian McNeilly, director of the Natioanl [sic] Association for the Teaching of English, said: "I think it's an easy, knee-jerk reaction - though an entirely understandable one - to blame technology for perceived declines in a whole variety of areas. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - You can’t be serious about Harry Potter! - Daily Telegraph, Friday May 18, 2012
JK Rowling’s books about the Hogwarts wizard have been the subject of academic debate this week. Why?
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Overhaul of GCSE results could mean fewer grades - BBC, Friday May 18, 2012
GCSE results could be overhauled with a cut in the number of grades available suggests the exams regulator for England, Ofqual.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor literacy standards tackled in schools by Welsh government plan - BBC, Thursday May 17, 2012
A five-year plan aimed at raising poor literacy standards in Welsh schools has been published. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads oppose new punctuation and spelling test - BBC, Tuesday May 8, 2012
Head teachers say they will disrupt a new spelling, grammar and punctuation test to be introduced in England's primary schools next summer.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Student publishes a new Shakespeare text - The Guardian, Sunday May 6, 2012
We're not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b - but with the highest of motives: 'Shakespeare is much easier to understand when words are written out in full.'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Target three-year-olds in social mobility drive, say MPs - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday May 1, 2012
The all-party Parliamentary group on social mobility also said that children aged just three should be given basic literacy lessons to get them fully ready for school. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Shakespeare's 'co-author' named by Oxford scholars - BBC, Wednesday April 25, 2012
'All's Well That Ends Well' has another author as well as William Shakespeare, according to research from Oxford University academics.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Meeting at the DfE - Not the Minutes - Michael Rosen's Blog, Tuesday April 24, 2012
Michael Rosen provides 'Not the Minutes' after a meeting at the DfE with Nick Gibb, Quentin Blake, Anne Fine about reading for enjoyment.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Probe launched as examiners 'set same GCSE paper twice' - Daily Telegraph, Friday April 20, 2012
An inquiry has been launched after hundreds of students were forced to sit a GCSE English exam that was almost identical to one staged just three years earlier.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Phonics test: NUT may ballot on boycott - BBC, Sunday April 8, 2012
A teachers' union has voted to ballot for a boycott of a new phonics reading test if its results are used in league tables.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ofsted has a problem - Times Educational Supplement, Friday April 6, 2012
ATL's Mary Bousted responds to the Ofsted English report with a few home truths for the Chief Inspector.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ofqual report backs final exam A-levels - BBC, Wednesday April 4, 2012
Academics and teachers back a return to more traditional A-levels, with pupils sitting fewer "module" papers throughout their course, a study finds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Mr Gove please listen - A-levels aren't broken - The Guardian, Wednesday April 4, 2012
A headteacher explains why she thinks Gove's new plans to get university professors to set the A-level curriculum is a step too farLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here