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- Test results 'may need scrapping' - BBC, Monday July 14, 2008
The head of one of the main education unions says the national curriculum test results may need to be annulled.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Exam board looks to lawyers in results row - The Guardian, Monday July 14, 2008
The government's exam authority is considering legal action against the company that failed to deliver this year's Sats results on time.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - It's only words, maybe. But we must take care of our language - The Observer, Sunday July 13, 2008
... In the absence of any formal, state endorsement of the language, along the lines of France's Loi Toubon, the protected status of English depends upon the speaker.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Exams chief faces Sats grilling - BBC, Thursday July 10, 2008
MPs have called in the head of England's exams watchdog to ask for an explanation of what is being called the "shambles" of this year's Sats marking.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Accuracy of test results hit by marking chaos, say heads - The Guardian, Wednesday July 9, 2008
Headteachers are warning parents that their children's Sats results may not be accurate as a result of the chaos surrounding the marking of papers this year.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Rising number of primary pupils unable to speak in sentences - The Guardian, Tuesday July 8, 2008
The number of children who arrive at primary school unable to speak in full sentences is rising, according to a government review which today reveals that 7% of children now have a serious communication problem.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Graduate literacy 'worries firms' - BBC, Tuesday July 8, 2008
Poor reading and writing skills among graduates are a concern for half of the UK's top employers, a survey suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats test delay inquiry launches - BBC, Monday July 7, 2008
A former Ofsted chief, Lord Sutherland, is to head the inquiry into the embarrassing failure to deliver this year's Sats tests results on time.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Shakespeare 'for five-year-olds' - BBC, Sunday July 6, 2008
Primary school children as young as five are to be given an early insight into the work of William Shakespeare. [...] Ian McNeilly from the National Association for the Teaching of English said: "Some of the language in the plays would be beyond pupils under a certain age, but the earlier children are introduced to Shakespeare the better. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 2b or not 2b? - The Guardian, Saturday July 5, 2008
Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spellingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The joy of text - The Guardian, Saturday July 5, 2008
Will Self and Lynne Truss on the horrors of text speak Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Schools stunned by delay in Sats results - The Guardian, Friday July 4, 2008
Today's embarrassing announcement by ministers of a delay in issuing Sats results for 11- and 14-year-olds has left schools reeling.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Delays hit pupils' test results - BBC, Friday July 4, 2008
More than a million school children in England aged 11 and 14 will get their "Sats" results late this year. Delivery of the national curriculum test results to schools, due next week, has been delayed by administrative chaos for at least a week. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Error risk in marking rush - Times Educational Supplement, Friday July 4, 2008
Examiners work the weekend to clear key stage 2 and 3 test backlog and get results to schools The accuracy of marking on millions of key stage 2 and 3 papers is in doubt and examiners fear many will not be returned to schools by next week. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Obituary: Michael Marland - The Guardian, Friday July 4, 2008
Visionary, radical and energetic headteacher who championed the comprehensive ideal Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats stress 'blamed on schools' - BBC, Thursday July 3, 2008
Primary schools in England should not be inflicting stress on seven-year-olds by treating national tests like exams, the children's secretary has said.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Balls accuses schools of causing Sats stress - The Guardian, Thursday July 3, 2008
The schools secretary, Ed Balls, has drawn fire for accusing primary schools of "stressing" children over Sats tests. In an interview with the New Statesman magazine published today, Balls said some teachers traumatise seven-year-olds by giving them advance warning of exams.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - US teacher is suspended for letting pupils read bestseller - The Guardian, Thursday July 3, 2008
An Indiana teacher who used a much lauded bestseller, The Freedom Writers Diary, to try to inspire under-performing high-school students has been suspended from her job without pay for 18 months.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Schools of thought: teach children philosophy, experts urge - The Guardian, Wednesday July 2, 2008
Children of all ages should study philosophy in school to develop their critical thinking skills, education experts said today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Science and maths exams are harder than arts subjects, say researchers - The Guardian, Tuesday July 1, 2008
It's what scientists have always known: the sciences are harder than the arts and the humanities. Now researchers at Durham University have proved it. [...]
Ian McNeilly, director of the National Association for the Teaching of English, said: "It seems scientists, on the one hand, decry the quality of their intake at universities and, on the other, say that their exams are so very hard. Any view of English as a 'soft option' is absolute nonsense. If the scientists tried to do it, they would find it wasn't such a breeze."Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here