English in the News
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- Sats exams promote 'teaching to the test' - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday April 6, 2010
National exams in primary schools are promoting a culture of “teaching to the test”, according to MPs.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teachers' union pushes for primary school tests boycott - The Guardian, Saturday April 3, 2010
The next government is heading for a summer of discontent with teachers, it emerged yesterday, Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Alice Oswald wins inaugural Ted Hughes award - The Guardian, Tuesday March 30, 2010
New prize sponsored by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy goes to 'unsettling and unsettled' collection Weeds and Wild FlowersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Andrew Motion to write sequel to Treasure Island - The Guardian, Friday March 26, 2010
The former poet laureate takes Jim Hawkins back to the island in search of the lost treasure 126 years after Stevenson's storLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Schoolchildren 'failing to read books' - Daily Telegraph, Friday March 26, 2010
Children’s love of classic literature is being ruined as books are increasingly “dismantled” to help pupils pass exams, according to teachers. [NUT Conference]
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tories want traditional A-level to 'restore confidence' - BBC, Wednesday March 24, 2010
Traditional A-levels could be reintroduced with exams at the end of two years under Conservative plans to overhaul the qualifications system.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents struggle to help with homework - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Five out of six parents find helping with homework too difficult, study shows. .... One in three fathers find English is toughest to assist with, compared with 10% of mothers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ted Hughes joins literary greats at Poets' Corner - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Ted Hughes, poet laureate and author of such celebrated collections as Crow and Birthday Letters, is to be honoured by a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - David Almond wins Hans Christian Andersen medal - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
British author 'stunned' to take top international children's literature prizeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teachers plan to boycott school tests - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Unions predict majority of teachers ballotted will vote for a boycott of national tests for 11-year-oldsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Free internet access planned to boost library use - BBC, Monday March 22, 2010
Free internet access and e-books could help reverse a decline in the number of people using libraries in England, according to a new government review.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Is there any real value in learning poetry by heart? Are the Conservatives right to want to bring it - The Independent, Thursday March 18, 2010
Are the Conservatives right to want to bring it back to schools?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - David Beckham's ankle immortalised by poet laureate - BBC, Tuesday March 16, 2010
Now, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has penned a poem with the perhaps unusual inspiration of David Beckham's ankle injury.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'Shakespeare's lost play' no hoax, says expert - The Guardian, Monday March 15, 2010
New evidence that Double Falsehood was, as 18th-century playwright Lewis Theobald claimed, based on Bard's CardenioLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - A tempest of four legs and two voices - The Guardian, Saturday March 13, 2010
Letters in response to RSC's teaching Shakespeare campaign.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Thousands of pupils 'going backwards' in English and maths - Daily Telegraph, Friday March 12, 2010
Around 200,000 children are effectively going backwards in the three-Rs at secondary school, new figures suggest.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - All the classroom's a stage, as RSC helps bring Shakespeare to life - The Guardian, Thursday March 11, 2010
Teachers urged to drop 'chalk and talk' technique and let pupils mirror methods of actors by walking aroundLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Say what? A parents' guide to UK teenage slang - BBC, Thursday March 11, 2010
We are all British, right? We all speak the same language, surely? Not according to a very unscientific survey carried out by BBC News School Report.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - They can't read, can't write, keep time or be tidy: Tesco director's verdict on school-leavers - The Guardian, Wednesday March 10, 2010
Lucy Neville-Rolfe attacks the quality of education received by many of the young Britons recruited by the retailerLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ed Balls tells teachers: don't back test boycott - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday March 10, 2010
Ed Balls signalled a further retreat from Sats tests today as Labour attempted to ward off the threat of industrial action from teachers.
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