English in the News
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- 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 - Authors in revolt against plans to vet them for school visits - The Guardian, Friday July 10, 2009
Philip Pullman condemns 'outrageous, demeaning' scheme, and says it will stop him going into schoolsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Carol Ann Duffy launches Ted Hughes award - The Guardian, Thursday July 9, 2009
Poet laureate uses stipend to fund prize rewarding 'most exciting' contribution to poetry in all its forms
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Merriam-Webster releases list of new words to be included in dictionary - The Guardian, Thursday July 9, 2009
The irresistible power of the digital revolution to transform everything in its path has been confirmed, lest anyone still doubts it, by one of the arbitors of the English language itself.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Key schools policy to be ditched - BBC, Friday June 26, 2009
The government is set to abandon one of its most significant education policies in primary schools in England. From 2011 schools will no longer have to implement national strategies in literacy and numeracy.
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In a totemic break from the Blair years, next week's education white paper will signal the end of Labour's national strategies for schools, which includes oversight of the literacy and numeracy hours in primaries. The changes will strip away centralised prescription of teaching methods and dramatically cut the use of private consultants currently employed to improve schools.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Major problems with tests - claim - BBC, Tuesday June 23, 2009
There are fundamental problems with the testing system that might replace Sats in England's schools, it is claimed.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teacher training to spot dyslexia - BBC, Monday June 22, 2009
More teachers will be trained to identify and support children in England with dyslexia, as a report says greater expertise is needed in schools.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 4,000 dyslexia teachers to be trained in two years - The Guardian, Monday June 22, 2009
Children with the learning difficulty must get 'skilled, one-to-one interventions', says expertLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats replacement system 'even more stressful for pupils' - The Guardian, Monday June 22, 2009
Single level tests have produced wildly unpredictable results according to two secret reports on the pilotsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Must do better: Ofsted order to schools as third of English lessons judged not good enough - The Guardian, Friday June 19, 2009
Schools have been ordered to overhaul their English teaching after a three-year study by Ofsted, published today, found 30% of lessons are not good enough and little attempt is made to encourage teenagers to read for pleasure.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ofsted: English standards 'not good enough' - Daily Telegraph, Friday June 19, 2009
Standards of English in state schools have stalled, despite a multi-billion pound drive to improve literacy, according to Ofsted.
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Standards in English are not rising fast enough in primary or secondary schools, England's chief inspector of schools has said.
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A US company which monitors internet traffic predicts that the millionth new English word will be coined imminently.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Paperless classroom becoming a reality - The Guardian, Wednesday June 10, 2009
Information available to pupils digitally on the up; one million children still have no computer at homeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Browne is new Children's Laureate - BBC, Tuesday June 9, 2009
Author and illustrator Anthony Browne is the new Children's Laureate, it has been announced. Browne, whose books include Gorilla, Zoo and the Willy series of adventures, takes over from poet Michael Rosen.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The ups and downs of a story - The Guardian, Tuesday June 9, 2009
As he bows out as children's laureate today, Michael Rosen looks back on the warmth and enthusiasm of his young audiences ... and the blank looks of politiciansLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children 'no longer reading for pleasure' - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday June 9, 2009
Children's love of books is being ruined by the demands of school tests, according to an award-winning author Frank Cottrell Boyce.
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There has been a problem with the marking of this year's Sats tests in England, with "good markers" being stopped from checking papers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Bronte, Blake, Wilde – read their hand-written manuscripts online - The Guardian, Friday June 5, 2009
This week the extraordinary British Literary Manuscripts Online (BLMO) launches, featuring more than 400,000 pages of poems, plays, novels, private correspondence, diaries, drawings and handwritten notes by Britain's literary giants.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here