English in the News
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- Knife crime: Can drama help stop it? - The Independent, Thursday September 11, 2008
They were young dropouts on the road to ruin. Then they discovered the theatre – and a whole new sense of self. Angela Neustatter reports on a remarkable programme that's turning lives aroundLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Knighthood for phonics champion - BBC, Friday June 15, 2007
A champion of the traditional teaching of reading has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour to 'guarantee' C in English and maths - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 11, 2011
GCSE pledge part of ‘major rethink’ on educationLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour to junk Tony Blair's flagship school reform - The Guardian, Thursday June 25, 2009
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 - Labour U-turn scraps tests for 14-year-olds - The Guardian, Wednesday October 15, 2008
The government yesterday abolished Sats examinations for 14-year-olds in a move triggered by the collapse of this year's marking process and a string of high profile reports critical of the tests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour's 500,000 primary school 'illiterates' - Yorkshire Post, Monday August 3, 2009
More than half a million children will have left primary school unable to read or write since Labour came to power, it was claimed yesterday as the latest primary school test scores are published.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour's school test fiasco: After 12 years, ministers FINALLY do a U-turn and tear up SATs exams - Daily Mail, Wednesday October 15, 2008
SATs tests for 14-year-olds have been scrapped in a humiliating U-turn by Children's Secretary Ed Balls. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Lack of English skills puts pressure on schools - The Guardian, Monday December 17, 2007
Children with English as their first language are in the minority in more than 1,300 schools, according to official figures.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Lad lit - The Guardian, Tuesday May 24, 2005
Why are English topics in tests at 11 and 14 so boy-friendly? Anthea Davey has some ideas.Which of the following is the odd one out? a) Lorries; b) Cowboys; c) Robots; d) Ballerinas. There are two possible answers. One would be that conventionally d is of greater interest to girls, while answers a-c are more generally associated with boys.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
- Language lands children's author in trouble - The Guardian, Thursday October 6, 2005
Bum, bogey, fart, crap and a joke about Harry Potter not being "the only gay in the village" would not cause much shock in the playground. But when a bestselling author turned the air a pale shade of blue during a school talk to promote literacy, he was ejected by shocked teachers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Laureate attacks poetry teaching - BBC, Friday December 7, 2007
Children's Laureate Michael Rosen has said government literacy policy is having a "disastrous" effect on poetry.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Laureate bemoans 'thankless' job - BBC, Wednesday September 10, 2008
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has said that the job of writing verse for the Royal Family is "thankless" and gave him a case of writer's block.
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 - League tables pressure 'drives staff to cheat' - The Guardian, Thursday December 6, 2007
Teachers have denounced the excessive pressure government league tables place on schools to perform, claiming they drive some staff to cheat.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - League tables: only half the story - BBC, Saturday January 13, 2007
School league tables are now as old as the 15-year-old pupils whose GCSE results they report. But is it any clearer yet what they are supposed to achieve? Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Learn from Shakespeare, doctors told - News 24, Wednesday November 23, 2011
Doctors should read up on Shakespeare, according to an unusual medical study that says the Bard was exceptionally skilled at spotting psychosomatic symptoms.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Leslie Stratta obituary - The Guardian, Monday May 17, 2010
Our friend Leslie Stratta, who has died aged 83, made an outstanding contribution to the teaching of English in Britain, Canada and Australia.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Lesson one: no Orwellian language - BBC, Saturday February 16, 2008
An insightful speaker raised a massive cheer from the audience at an education conference this week. [...] He urged everyone to stop talking about "delivery" in education and to return to talking about "teaching". Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Let's have maiden sonnets instead of maiden speeches - The Guardian, Tuesday March 25, 2008
Now that the "man who wasn't Blair" storm has disappeared back into the rhyming teacup it came from, maybe it's time to consider the wider question of politicians and their attitude to poetry. The offending poem was seen as the equivalent of a rude chant on the terraces or a bit of graffiti on a toilet wall; it filled a few column inches and got some people talking and some others having a go at writing something themselves, but in the end it was seen as essentially frivolous, a diversion from whatever the real business of government is. What a lot of people failed to register is that poetry business is the real business, and not just for poets but for legislators too, writes Ian McMillanLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Let's take the digit out of digital - The Guardian, Tuesday February 12, 2008
The ability to communicate face to face and hold the attention of others is a vital human skill, says Greg Philo, head of the Glasgow Media GroupLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here