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- Sats boycott: schools running alternative tests - Daily Telegraph, Monday May 10, 2010
Primary schools are running their own unofficial tests in a move designed to scupper the publication of national league tables, it emerged today.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'Functionally illiterate and innumerate' - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 7, 2010
Government-funded research claims 20% of 16- to 19-year-olds lack basic skillsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor literacy and maths skills leave teenagers ill-equipped - The Guardian, Friday May 7, 2010
One fifth of school-leavers so illiterate and innumerate they struggle to cope with challenges of everyday lifeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Offer free English degree courses to all - The Guardian, Friday May 7, 2010
The study of our language and literature is so fundamental to society that everyone ought to have access to itLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Fifth of school leavers 'illiterate and innumerate' - Daily Telegraph, Friday May 7, 2010
One in five teenagers is practically unemployable after leaving school lacking the English and maths skills needed for everyday life, research suggests.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Heads are right to boycott Sats - The Guardian, Friday May 7, 2010
Guardian letter writer takes issue with Peter Preston
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'Best children's books' list revealed by Puffin - BBC, Thursday May 6, 2010
A list of 70 children's books said to be the best of all-time has been compiled by publisher Puffin. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of primaries to boycott Sats - The Guardian, Thursday May 6, 2010
Pupils in more than 900 schools will not sit tests next weekLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Many parents failing to read to children, survey shows - The Guardian, Friday April 30, 2010
More than half of primary teachers say they have seen at least one child with no experience of being told stories at homeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School governors 'should scupper Sats boycott', says Ed Balls - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday April 28, 2010
The Schools Secretary told primary school governing bodies that they had a legal duty to make sure exams for 11-year-olds were staged next month. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Alan Sillitoe dies aged 82 - The Guardian, Sunday April 25, 2010
Author of kitchen sink dramas Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner dies in hospitalLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poet Peter Porter dies - The Guardian, Friday April 23, 2010
Peter Porter, winner of the Forward prize, the Whitbread poetry award and the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, has died at the age of 81Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - We can't ignore the teachers' boycott of tests - The Independent, Thursday April 22, 2010
It is important not to lose sight of the fact that the two unions have highlighted a problem that needs a solutionLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford poetry professorship re-run begins - The Guardian, Monday April 19, 2010
Britain's other election – for a successor to WH Auden, Robert Graves and Seamus Heaney as Oxford university's professor of poetry – today became a three-way race. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Headteachers vote to boycott Sats tests - The Guardian, Friday April 16, 2010
Two biggest teaching unions – NUT and NAHT – to take action against tests due to be sat by 600,000 children on May 10Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Footballers pick books for boys - The Guardian, Tuesday April 13, 2010
Boys lag behind girls at school – and one reason is their resistance to reading. But Premier League footballers are coming to their rescue…Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prize incentive to help improve literacy in the Commonwealth - The Guardian, Monday April 12, 2010
As former winners, we acknowledge the truly unique contribution the Commonwealth Writers' prize has made in promoting literacy as a tool to empower and enrich the lives of millions...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Romeo and Juliet get Twitter treatment - The Guardian, Monday April 12, 2010
Royal Shakespeare Company retelling Bard's Romeo and Juliet with cast of six over five weeks and 4,000 tweetsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children speaking English in minority in 1,500 schools - Daily Telegraph, Sunday April 11, 2010
Figures show that London, frequently the arrival point for immigrants into the country, has been the hardest hit. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - My third child is failing to read at school with phonics. What else can we try with her? - The Independent, Thursday April 8, 2010
Parents need to know that, although phonics is a very good tool for learning to read, it is not a magic formula that will work without fail for every child.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here