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- Ministers accused of free book funding 'partial U-turn' - BBC, Sunday December 26, 2010
The government has been accused of performing a partial U-turn over funding for a charity that gives free books to children.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Obituary: Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite - BBC, Monday January 3, 2011
Oscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who has died at the age of 64, had a successful 40-year career which spanned the screen and stage.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hardy, Heaney and Keats among Poems on the Underground - BBC, Friday January 7, 2011
Verses from John Keats, Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney are among those to be displayed on Tube trains as part of a project now in its 25th year.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove stresses 'facts' in curriculum revamp - BBC, Thursday January 20, 2011
Michael Gove hopes top British authors and poets will contribute to the debate about which books and poetry should be studied.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Speech problems 'hamper children's reading ability' - BBC, Friday January 21, 2011
Delays in young children's ability to speak and listen properly are leaving them struggling to learn to read and write, Ofsted has warned.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Richard and Judy launch book club for children - BBC, Thursday January 27, 2011
Celebrities Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are launching a book club aimed specifically at children.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children's screen habits revealed - BBC, Tuesday February 1, 2011
UK children watch an average of more than two and a half hours of television a day and spend an hour and 50 minutes online a day, a poll suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - JD Salinger 'was Tim Henman fan' - BBC, Thursday January 27, 2011
JD Salinger was a fan of tennis player Tim Henman and enjoyed eating burgers, previously unseen letters written by the Catcher in the Rye author show.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents 'wrongly blamed for speech problems' - BBC, Monday January 31, 2011
Long-term speech and language problems are wrongly being blamed on parents not talking to their children and too much television, research suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading tests for pupils part of Welsh school shake-up - BBC, Thursday February 3, 2011
National reading tests are to be introduced as part of a shake-up to Wales' schools system announced by the education minister.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Library users 'become better readers' - BBC, Friday February 4, 2011
Children who use their local public library are twice as likely to be above average readers, a report has said.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Patrick Stewart chosen to receive Shakespeare prize - BBC, Thursday February 3, 2011
Sir Patrick Stewart CBE is to receive this year's Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Prize.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading test for six-year-olds to include non-words - BBC, Saturday February 19, 2011
A number of made-up words such as "koob" or "zort" are to be included in the government's planned new reading test for six-year-olds in EnglandLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Country music star Dolly Parton in Scots book giveaway - BBC, Sunday March 6, 2011
Country music star Dolly Parton has launched a project to give free books to children in Scotland. 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 - Education secretary scraps modular GCSEs from 2012 - BBC, Sunday June 26, 2011
Modular GCSEs are to be scrapped from September 2012 the Education Secretary Michael Gove has told the BBC.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boys are more confident communicators, survey finds - BBC, Wednesday May 4, 2011
More boys than girls feel confident expressing their views in class and social situations, a survey of eight- to 16-year-olds in the UK has found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Watchdog to investigate exam standards - BBC, Friday May 13, 2011
Fears that GCSEs and A-levels are getting easier are to be investigated by the exams standards watchdog.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teenagers must stick at English and maths - BBC, Friday May 13, 2011
Teenagers who fail to achieve good GCSE grades at English and maths will have to carry on studying the subjects beyond the age of 16.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Fund to boost London child numeracy and literacy - BBC, Wednesday June 8, 2011
Businesses in London have been asked to donate £3m to improve child numeracy and literacy skills in the capital.
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