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- Primary school strategies were a waste of money, report claims - The Guardian, Thursday April 30, 2009
Literacy and numeracy standards rose faster before government brought them in, says thinktankLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Number taking GCSE in English literature falls - The Guardian, Wednesday April 29, 2009
More than a quarter of state school pupils do not take English literature GCSE, and children in the poorest parts of the country are least likely to be tested on their understanding of the classics at 16, new figures reveal.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - English lit 'shunned by students' - BBC, Tuesday April 28, 2009
English literature GCSE is not being taken by almost one in four teenagers, according to figures published by the Conservatives.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children's classics top book list - BBC, Monday April 27, 2009
Classic tales including Just William and The Railway Children dominate a list of the best books of all time, as chosen by children's laureates.
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 - Laureates join to attack schools - BBC, Wednesday April 22, 2009
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and Children's Laureate Michael Rosen have jointly criticised the teaching of poetry in schools.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Girls make boys worse at English, says new study - The Guardian, Tuesday April 21, 2009
Boys' English grades are up to a tenth worse when high numbers of girls are in the class with them, though girls' grades are unaffectedLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - What are GCSEs testing, if not skills? - The Guardian, Tuesday April 21, 2009
If students can pass English GCSE without being able to write clear prose, surely something is wrong, says Mike BakerLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Why I abandoned teaching - The Guardian, Tuesday April 14, 2009
When Leonora Klein started training as an English teacher she found a world in which measuring was more important than learning.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 - English 'losing out' to literacy - BBC, Thursday April 9, 2009
English lessons are dying out and being replaced by literacy, the leader of a teaching union claims.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats tests may be axed, hints Ed Balls - The Guardian, Tuesday April 7, 2009
The schools secretary, Ed Balls, has given his strongest indication to date that the current system of Sats tests will be scrapped - but he insisted that some form of test at the end of primary school will stay. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - What is the primary curriculum for? - The Guardian, Tuesday April 7, 2009
Two cheers for the select committee's report on the national curriculum. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Campaign gets footballers booked - BBC, Saturday April 4, 2009
The first Harry Potter novel is England football star Wayne Rooney's book of choice, he revealed, as he backed a reading campaign for children.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - GCSE basic skills pledge scrapped - BBC, Thursday April 2, 2009
The government has dropped the key part of its pledge to improve teenagers' functional English and maths skills.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tweeting vs reading: The row over technology in primary schools - The Independent, Thursday April 2, 2009
A government adviser wants English primary schoolchildren to be the most hi-tech in the world. But opponents worry that skills such as tweeting and blogging might come at the expense of the basics.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Education unions plan 2010 Sats boycott - The Guardian, Thursday March 26, 2009
Testing must end this year, say NUT and NAHT - Conference votes follow scrapping of exams at 14Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up - The Guardian, Wednesday March 25, 2009
New curriculum will give teachers more freedom; Second world war and Victoria not compulsoryLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupils rally behind teacher suspended for writing school novel - The Guardian, Monday March 23, 2009
Police halt protest in West Yorkshire in clash over 'inspirational' teacher who named children in classroom bookLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ed Balls seeks power to dictate what textbooks GCSE and A-level students must study - The Guardian, Thursday March 19, 2009
The schools secretary, Ed Balls, is seeking a new legal power to dictate the basic content of every public exam in England, in a move that would give him or any future secretary of state the right to decide which books children must study at GCSE or A-level.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here