English in the News
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- Pupils to face new progression measures - BBC, Monday November 8, 2010
Three new measures of pupils' progress are to be introduced to hold head teachers and ministers to account.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove orders Sats inquiry - The Guardian, Friday November 5, 2010
Ministers want to find out whether primary schools are drilling rather than teaching pupils. Tests for 11-year-olds could be scrapped as a result.... It emerged yesterday that schools made almost 23,500 appeals against this year's English and maths Sats results.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Gove orders review of primary school exams - Daily Telegraph, Friday November 5, 2010
Primary school exams face a major overhaul amid Government claims that teachers are spending hours “drilling” pupils to pass.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sense, sensibility ... and the truth about an author named Jane - The Guardian, Thursday November 4, 2010
No Austen scholar is of the opinion that 'everything came finished from her pen'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Class blogs: a better way to teach? - The Guardian, Thursday November 4, 2010
We look at one teacher who's using blogging as a creative way of showcasing pupils' workLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Should under-fives be taught to read and write? - The Independent, Thursday November 4, 2010
'Learning through play' has long been the key phrase in nursery education. Now, there's concern that a government review could see children pushed into formal lessons too soon.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Humanities to lose English universities teaching grant - BBC, Tuesday October 26, 2010
Teaching grants for degree courses in arts, humanities and social sciences at England's universities are likely to be phased out under government plans.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The other half of the literary canon - The Guardian, Saturday October 16, 2010
In Gove's list of nine writers only Austen (I'm assuming he means Percy Bysshe, not Mary) flies the flag for the other 50-plus percent of the population...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - God save the Queen's English: Our language is under threat .... - The Independent, Thursday October 7, 2010
Far from being outmoded, the correct use of our language is more important than ever, argues Bernard Lamb, president of the Queen's English Society
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Should spelling and grammar count in exams? - The Guardian, Wednesday October 6, 2010
Michael Gove says marks should be allocated for correct punctuation, spelling and grammar. Is this fair?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Our literature is the best in the world – it is every child's birthright - The Guardian, Tuesday October 5, 2010
English teaching will also be reformed to ensure that the poetry of Pope and Shelley, the satire of Swift and the novels of Dickens and Hardy are at the heart of classroom teaching.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Gove to overhaul English - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday October 5, 2010
An overhaul of the curriculum will also re-establish great authors, including Byron, Keats, Austen, Dickens and Hardy, in English lessons and lead to a dramatic toughening up of standards in mathematics and science. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Desmond Morris: TV as good as books for toddlers - The Guardian, Friday October 1, 2010
Anthropologist attacks 'cultural snobbery' in contentious new book on development of preschool childrenLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - From Shakespeare to Punk Rock - The Guardian, Monday September 20, 2010
When it comes to theatre productions for students, adaptations of cult novels are taking over from more traditional fare this termLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Exam system 'diseased', claims former education adviser - The Guardian, Friday September 17, 2010
Mick Waters says exam boards 'almost corrupt' and make profits through textbooks that hint at exam questionsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Out of Art into Literacy at the National Gallery - The Guardian, Tuesday September 14, 2010
A pioneering project for primary school children uses old masters to develop narrative skillsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Future of school libraries in doubt - Daily Telegraph, Friday September 3, 2010
The future of school libraries is under threat after the country’s largest local authority cancelled the service for tens of thousands of pupils.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading Agency defends libraries' impact on literacy - The Guardian, Tuesday August 31, 2010
As government cuts threaten libraries, the Reading Agency comes to their defence with a success story – the Summer Reading ChallengeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format - The Guardian, Monday August 30, 2010
Publishers confirm that print dictionary market is disappearing so third edition is unlikelyLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Fifth of seven year olds struggle with writing - Daily Telegraph, Thursday August 26, 2010
More than a hundred thousand seven-year-olds are falling below the expected standards in their writing, according to official figures.
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