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- Rosen's sign of the rhymes - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 15, 2007
MICHAEL ROSEN, the new children's laureate, has kicked off his two-year appointment with an attack on testing and synthetic phonics. The 61-year-old poet wore a striped yellow T-shirt, black combat trousers and brown trainers for his inauguration at Bafta in London's Piccadilly.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Romeo woos today's teenagers - Times Educational Supplement, Friday February 2, 2007
'Romeo and Juliet' has topped a poll of teachers and English advisers as the most popular and engaging Shakespeare play for 11 to 14 year-olds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Roger McGough takes a lead from Carol Ann Duffy - The Guardian, Thursday May 28, 2009
Hay festival: Poet welcomes appointment of new laureate, and follows her look at the wives of famous men with sequence on famous women's husbandsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Robo-marking sees off red pen - Times Educational Supplement, Friday December 8, 2006
Does essay-marking software spell the end for the red pen? The system has already caused a stir in America. Now Edexcel has announced plans to trial the Pearson Knowledge Technologies programme in Britain - initially on dummy papers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Robert Burns museum opens at his former home in Ayrshire - The Guardian, Wednesday December 1, 2010
National Trust opens Robert Burns museum after two-year delay, hoping people won't be tim'rous about comingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Rising number of primary pupils unable to speak in sentences - The Guardian, Tuesday July 8, 2008
The number of children who arrive at primary school unable to speak in full sentences is rising, according to a government review which today reveals that 7% of children now have a serious communication problem.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Rise in science and language A-level achievement - The Guardian, Thursday August 16, 2007
Students received record numbers of A grades and there were significant increases in those taking maths, physics, chemistry and languages, as A-level results were published today. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Right and wrongs of reading - Times Educational Supplement, Friday November 2, 2007
Claims that one in five pupils leave primary school illiterate are misleading, writes Helen Ward. You are not illiterate. But if you were, you could read this. In fact, the only word in the first sentence that many officially illiterate 11- and 7-year-olds would be likely to stumble over is "illiterate". It is a concept that lots of adults find difficult too.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 - Rich children 'have superior vocabularies by age of five' - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday June 7, 2011
Children living in wealthy households have far superior vocabularies and problem-solving skills than their poorer peers by the age of five, according to research prepared for Scottish ministers.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London - The Guardian, Friday April 24, 2009
Launching in London today, the Espresso Book Machine can print any of 500,000 titles while you wait.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Review into efficiency of exams - BBC, Friday April 11, 2008
The government has agreed to an efficiency review of the exams system. [...] The QCA report, compiled by Europe Economics, said: "Over time the system almost certainly has engendered inefficiency and in our view is likely to go on doing so. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Return of the O-Level: Gove announces radical plan to scrap GCSEs - Daily Mail, Wednesday June 20, 2012
Under Gove's plan, class of 2013 will be last to sit GCSEs, according a leaked story in the Daily Mail
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Return of O-levels and end of National Curriculum? - The Guardian, Thursday June 21, 2012
The education department refused to comment on leaked documents. But it is understood that there are two broad elements to the reforms: the national curriculum, which sets out what secondary school pupils should be taught, will be scrapped; and a more rigorous exam system will be introduced.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Results fiasco test chief quits - BBC, Wednesday November 17, 2004
The head of England's testing agency has resigned following a critical report on this year's English tests. The QCA qualifications watchdog said "a myriad of issues and errors" caused the chaos in the tests for teenagers. Its review was critical of senior management and concluded "the whole test operations process is not robust in any sense".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Respect and justice - The Guardian, Tuesday March 6, 2007
Author Malorie Blackman explains why she chose slavery as the subject of her new anthology, Unheard VoicesLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Research questions phonics policy - BBC, Monday January 30, 2006
Research has questioned the impact of synthetic phonics teaching, which was backed by a government literacy review.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Research casts doubt on Kelly reading plan - The Guardian, Monday January 30, 2006
The education secretary, Ruth Kelly, faced fresh criticism from a research report today over her plans to overhaul the way children are taught to read.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Report on exams reveals the 'dumbed down' subjects - The Guardian, Friday February 22, 2008
A report published by the government's exams watchdog today attempts to settle the row over qualifications by conceding that not all A-levels and GCSEs are equal.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Report finds shortfall in nursery language and literacy standards - The Guardian, Tuesday March 6, 2007
Language and literacy standards among three to five-year-olds fell short in a third of English nurseries and schools, a report from Ofsted warns today. More attention needs to be paid to children's speaking and listening skills, the school childcare inspectorate found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here