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- 'Too many parents failing to read to their children' - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday June 8, 2010
National Literacy Trust research on the impact of family on children’s literacy grabbed the headlines this month with the finding that nearly nine in 10 young people in the UK own a mobile phone, while just over seven in 10 have books of their own. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pedants’ revolt aims to protect English from spell of txt spk - The Times, Monday June 7, 2010
An Academy of English is being formed by the Queen’s English Society, to protect the language from impurities, bastardisations and the horrors introduced by the text-speak generation. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Obama and Izzard feature in new GCSE English exam - BBC, Friday June 4, 2010
Celebrity interviewer Jonathan Ross and comedian Eddie Izzard could become classroom discussion topics as part of a new English GCSE. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - At last, Obama meets Corbett in new English language exam - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 4, 2010
US President and diminutive funnyman to feature in unit on spontaneous speechLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Derbyshire Book worms turn tales into trophies - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 4, 2010
Around 1,500 pupils from Derbyshire have been competing on their knowledge of books in a countywide literature contest.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Literacy boost for teens - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 4, 2010
Staff at a secondary school in Birmingham have been volunteering ten minutes of their time each day to help 15 and 16-year-olds who are struggling with reading.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Alan Smithers: 'So, who will decide on the curriculum now?' - The Independent, Thursday June 3, 2010
Few in the present economic climate will be surprised that the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) is to be scrapped.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 1,300 ways to say the same thing - The Guardian, Tuesday June 1, 2010
An online archive is collecting English accents to help academics and actors. Could you add yours?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 7% of A-levels could be given new top A* grade - BBC, Friday May 28, 2010
A new A* grade being awarded in A-levels this year could go 7% of entries, research suggests. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - QCDA exam quango to be scrapped - The Guardian, Thursday May 27, 2010
Education Secretary Michael Gove has confirmed that he is closing down the qualifications and curriculum agency, the QCDA. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School curriculum quango abolished - The Guardian, Thursday May 27, 2010
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Education quango scrapped in Whitehall cull - Daily Telegraph, Thursday May 27, 2010
The quango responsible for managing exams and the curriculum in England will be scrapped, the government announced today.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - What's the best poetry to learn by heart? - The Guardian, Wednesday May 26, 2010
My awe and envy of John Basinger, a man who has committed the whole of Paradise Lost to memory, makes me want to learn more poems. But where should I start?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Instant messaging: This conversation is terminated - BBC, Monday May 24, 2010
Instant messaging was once tipped to replace e-mail, but recent figures suggest that it has lost ground sharply. Why?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Why I love letters - The Guardian, Monday May 24, 2010
Like Jane Austen's Darcy or Wentworth, we all possess the sine qua non of letter-writing – a heartLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Leslie Stratta obituary - The Guardian, Monday May 17, 2010
Our friend Leslie Stratta, who has died aged 83, made an outstanding contribution to the teaching of English in Britain, Canada and Australia.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Who chooses the set-texts our children study? - The Independent, Sunday May 16, 2010
As pupils do some last-minute swotting up ahead of their English GCSE exams, former teacher Susan Elkin examines the changing nature of the syllabusLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Almost 1m pupils speak English as second language - Daily Telegraph, Thursday May 13, 2010
Some one-in-six pupils in primary schools speak another language at home, it was disclosed, double the rate a decade ago. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Goodbye Department for Curtains and Soft Furnishings - The Guardian, Thursday May 13, 2010
Gove renames DCSF the Department for Education as rainbow logos are taken downLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats boycott hits tens of thousands of pupils - BBC, Monday May 10, 2010
Tens of thousands of children in England are missing their Sats tests as head teachers in hundreds of schools stage a boycott. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here