English in the News
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- Primary school league tables 2009: English results down while maths stalls - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday December 1, 2009
The number of children leaving school with a decent grasp of English has dropped for the first time since Sats were introduced, league tables show
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school exam essays 'should be ditched' - The Guardian, Monday January 19, 2009
Thinktank suggests written tests do not give an accurate picture of how pupils are doing and should be replaced by multiple-choice tests
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school curriculum shake-up attacked - Daily Telegraph, Thursday November 19, 2009
A key advisor to the Prince of Wales has criticised plans to axe traditional subjects in schools
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary School Children to be Given Lessons in Talking - The Independent, Monday November 3, 2003
Lessons in the art of conversation are to be given to five-year-olds, many of whom are starting school unable to talk clearly or pay attention.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school children to be expected to learn and recite poetry - The Guardian, Sunday June 10, 2012
Michael Gove to announce overhaul of English teaching including new emphasis on spelling and grammarLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school 'street' talk breeding illiteracy, claims thinktank - The Guardian, Monday July 19, 2010
Primary school teachers are breeding illiteracy among children by letting them speak "street" in the classroom, a rightwing thinktank claims today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary review: scrap Sats tests, experts say - Daily Telegraph, Friday October 16, 2009
Sats tests for 11-year-olds should be scrapped, according to the Cambridge Primary Review.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary review: scrap Sats tests, experts say - Daily Telegraph, Friday October 16, 2009
Sats tests for 11-year-olds should be scrapped, according to the Cambridge Primary Review.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary review commentary: tough on standards, tough on tests - Daily Telegraph, Friday October 16, 2009
Children should be assessed and schools should be accountable. Of that there can be not a shred of doubt.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary reading set for overhaul - BBC, Thursday December 1, 2005
The way children are taught to read in primary schools in England will be shaken up, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has confirmed.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary reading lessons reviewed - BBC, Friday June 3, 2005
Literacy teaching in England's primary schools is to be reviewed following a critical report on standards by MPs. Techniques such as "synthetic phonics" - the building up of words from simple letter sounds - will be investigated, with a view to using them more. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary literacy levels disputed - BBC, Thursday November 24, 2005
Head teachers are sceptical about 11- year-olds' reading skills even if they reach the expected test levels in England, a government adviser says.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary education 'is deficient' - BBC, Friday February 20, 2009
Children in England are getting a "deficient" primary education because schools are focusing too much on maths, English and testing, a report has said.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pressure of tests ‘means primary school pupils lose their childhood’ - The Times, Friday October 12, 2007
Children at primary schools are being forced to grow up too soon and face ”intolerable pressure” from both the regime of testing in schools and fears about commercialism in the outside world, research suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Power of words: How a children's writer is turning boys into bookworms - The Independent, Thursday April 9, 2009
The writer GP Taylor is converting pupils to reading by telling them stories. It's a far cry from teaching to the test – and is producing some remarkable results. Warwick Mansell sees for himselfLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poverty, not gender, at root of performance
- The Guardian, Wednesday August 20, 2003
The government would improve boys' school performance more by concentrating on the poverty gap instead of the gender gap, Bristol University researchers concluded today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pop videos can help with poetry - Times Educational Supplement, Friday July 1, 2005
In response to last week's front page lead story "Ditch poetry for pop videos" (TES, June 17), who exactly is calling for poetry to be "ditched"? No one, as far as I am aware. Caroline Mortlock from NATE's 11-16 Committee responds to attack on media studies.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor spelling of 'auto-correct generation' revealed - BBC, Tuesday May 22, 2012
Ian McNeilly, director of the Natioanl [sic] Association for the Teaching of English, said: "I think it's an easy, knee-jerk reaction - though an entirely understandable one - to blame technology for perceived declines in a whole variety of areas. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor SATs results in writing prompt teaching reforms - The Independent, Wednesday August 6, 2008
A major overhaul of the way writing is taught in primary schools will be introduced in September following test results which show that one in three 11-year-olds struggles to write.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor literacy standards tackled in schools by Welsh government plan - BBC, Thursday May 17, 2012
A five-year plan aimed at raising poor literacy standards in Welsh schools has been published. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here