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- How to improve literacy in a time of austerity - The Independent, Friday March 16, 2012
Our national problem with reading goes beyond schools and runs deep in our society
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David Cameron today urged London parents to read to their children every night no matter how busy they are.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Humanities to lose English universities teaching grant - BBC, Tuesday October 26, 2010
Teaching grants for degree courses in arts, humanities and social sciences at England's universities are likely to be phased out under government plans.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of authors urge PM to tackle child illiteracy - The Guardian, Saturday December 15, 2007
More than 500 writers - including Nick Hornby, Ian Rankin, Joanna Trollope, Kate Mosse and Alexander McCall Smith - have called on Gordon Brown to confront the issue of childhood illiteracy. The authors say they are deeply concerned about low levels of literacy, and have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for "a push" on the issue, so that "no child is left behind".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of heads report concerns over Sats marks - BBC, Wednesday July 6, 2011
More than 300 heads in England have lodged concerns with the National Association of Head Teachers over the marking of some of this year's national curriculum tests, known as Sats.... The calls relate largely to a section of the English test, where pupils are asked to produce a piece of creative writing.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 - Hundreds of Sats examiners wrongly disqualified - The Guardian, Thursday June 4, 2009
Exams chaos for second year running as inaccurate dummy paper is used to grade markersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of schools make the news - BBC, Thursday March 13, 2008
Schools across the UK are creating their own news reports and broadcasting them with the help of the BBC.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - I loved our 'failing' school, flailing teacher realises - The Guardian, Thursday February 10, 2011
You can't beat an inner-city, state school, sixth form – sussed, curious, hungry and bright as pins. Ah, the dappled light on shades of academe as we thrilled to John Donne or Emily Bronte or the Clash. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ignore the Booker brouhaha. Readability is no test for literature - The Guardian, Tuesday October 18, 2011
The Booker prize judges misunderstand literature and its purpose. Would they blame maths for being difficult?, says jeanette Winterson
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The best way to teach reading and writing must be settled once and for all, says Boris Johnson.
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This week, some 600,000 GCSE students will receive their English exam results, but amid the joy and disappointment, fresh claims have emerged that raise concern over marking procedures at Britain's largest awarding body.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - In praise of ... Booktrust - The Guardian, Thursday December 23, 2010
Through its gift programmes for children the charity distributed around 6m books last year to toddlers and teenagersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - In praise of ... dictionary definitions - The Guardian, Friday May 25, 2007
"The meaning of a word," said the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, "is its use in the language." Not according to McDonald's. The burger chain may offer super-size meals but it wants to slim down the English language, by losing the word "McJob".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - In praise of ... Michael Rosen - The Guardian, Tuesday June 12, 2007
The amazing thing about the post of children's laureate is that no one thought of the idea before. For, in less than a decade, the laureate has become a treasured voice in the national conversation. That is because appointment as laureate involves both personal recognition and public responsibility.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - In praise of Byron's maiden speech - The Guardian, Thursday March 1, 2012
It is not just Lord Byron's poems that still ring down the agesLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - In praise of … apostrophes - The Guardian, Friday January 13, 2012
Waterstone's or Waterstones? The bookstore's dropping of its apostrophe shows confusion rules in the book tradeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - In praise of... John Clare - The Guardian, Friday July 10, 2009
To celebrate this chronicler of natural beauty, his home next week becomes an environmental and arts centre.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Indians 'world's biggest readers' - BBC, Monday June 27, 2005
Indians are the world's biggest bookworms, reading on average 10.7 hours a week, twice as long as Americans and Britons, according to a new survey.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Inquiry to examine the future of primary education - The Guardian, Friday October 13, 2006
The first independent inquiry into primary education in England for nearly 40 years was launched today. The two-year review, based at Cambridge University and funded by a charity, hopes to shape the future of schooling for young children for a generation, assessing the impact of political initiatives such as the National Curriculum and reading and literacy drives. See the Primary Review website for details.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here