English in the News
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- Theatre in education needs to get back to basics - The Guardian, Wednesday April 13, 2011
Getting young people involved in cutting-edge theatre is great, but we shouldn't forget drama is also a tool for social changLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Short-sighted and dangerous cuts to the arts - The Guardian, Saturday April 2, 2011
Director of National Association of Writers in Education protests at cut: Guardian Letters
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove: schools failing to promote the classics - Daily Telegraph, Friday April 1, 2011
Classic literature risks dying out in schools as hundreds of thousands of pupils are allowed to complete GCSEs without studying a single book written before the 20th century, Michael Gove warns today.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Literary classics are a window on today's world - Daily Telegraph, Friday April 1, 2011
Michael Gove has complained that GCSE English students are not reading enough Victorian literature.... The Education Secretary's argument is somewhat overblow...
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children's laureate damns Michael Gove's 'arbitrary' reading plan - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday March 29, 2011
Children's laureate Anthony Browne has become the latest critic of the proposed campaign by Education secretary Michael Gove that children as young as 11 should be reading 50 books a year.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - EBac could be rewritten to include English lit - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 25, 2011
Ministers are considering adding English literature to the English Baccalaureate (EBac) following warnings that the subject’s exclusion from the controversial league table measure is “absurd”.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Phonics: crude reading test 'will distort children's ability' - Daily Telegraph, Friday March 25, 2011
Government plans for a new phonics reading test for all six-year-olds is unnecessary and risks narrowing the curriculum, according to Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Phonics: chidren [sic] to identify 'non-words' in new reading test - Daily Telegraph, Friday March 25, 2011
All children will be subjected to a reading test at the age of six, it was announced today, despite huge opposition from teachers.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The 50 books every child should read - The Independent, Wednesday March 23, 2011
Michael Gove says he wants 11-year-olds to read the equivalent of a book a week. So what should they be? We ask the expertsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children 'should read 50 books a year', says Gove - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday March 22, 2011
Children as young as 11 should be expected to read 50 books a year as part of a national drive to improve literacy standards, according to Michael Gove.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Authors raise doubts over Gove's 50-book challenge - The Guardian, Tuesday March 22, 2011
Michael Gove's remark that children should be reading 50 books a year is called into question by authors from Philip Pullman to children's laureate Anthony BrowneLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 5 Ways Twitter Has Changed Education - MindShift, Monday March 21, 2011
The microblogging platform Twitter turns 5 todayLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children still delight in playground games - The Guardian, Tuesday March 15, 2011
Two-year research project shows youngsters incorporate computer games and TV shows into breaktime activitiesLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents who shun fairytales 'miss chance to teach children morality' - Daily Telegraph, Monday March 14, 2011
Politically correct parents who shun traditional fairy tales are missing the chance to teach their children right from wrong, an education expert claims.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition - The Guardian, Monday March 14, 2011
The derelict building that may have served as Charles Dickens's workhouse in his famous novel has been given listed statuLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour to 'guarantee' C in English and maths - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 11, 2011
GCSE pledge part of ‘major rethink’ on educationLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - English as she is spoke? Voice map finds American stresses not so loud - The Guardian, Thursday March 10, 2011
British Library's Map Your Voice scheme records 10,000 English speakers and finds 'Americanisation' of speech may be a mythLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Chalk Talk: A completely different way to help struggling readers - The Independent, Thursday March 10, 2011
Trouble on the Heath, Terry Jones's latest book, is in the Quick Reads series – part of World Book Day, which is designed to provide books in a handy format for those struggling to read.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Special needs support promises more parent power - BBC, Wednesday March 9, 2011
Support for young people in England with special educational needs faces a major overhaul.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Cuts threaten plans for special needs children - The Guardian, Wednesday March 9, 2011
The green paper on special needs has many good ideas - but how will they be implemented when services for vulnerable children are being cut, asks Ellen PowerLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here