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- National curriculum review: children to learn facts and figures in subject shake-up - Daily Telegraph, Thursday January 20, 2011
Children will be expected to learn the kings and queens of England, read great works of literature and master mental arithmetic under the biggest shake-up of the national curriculum for more than 20 years.
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Michael Gove spells out facts to be included in history and geography lessons in curriculum review that teachers condemn as elitist and outdated.
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The national curriculum should be fundamentally reformed with more focus on skills rather than specific subjects, a teachers' union has said. Tests for under-16s in England should also go, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers argues. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - My third child is failing to read at school with phonics. What else can we try with her? - The Independent, Thursday April 8, 2010
Parents need to know that, although phonics is a very good tool for learning to read, it is not a magic formula that will work without fail for every child.Link 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 - Much ado about Shakespeare - The Guardian, Tuesday February 6, 2007
Can pupils be persuaded that the Bard isn't too hard? Performances and podcasts could just do the trick Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Mr Gove please listen - A-levels aren't broken - The Guardian, Wednesday April 4, 2012
A headteacher explains why she thinks Gove's new plans to get university professors to set the A-level curriculum is a step too farLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - MPs: focus on dyslexia 'obscuring' reading problems - Daily Telegraph, Friday December 18, 2009
Children with common reading difficulties are too quickly diagnosed with dyslexia, according to MPs.
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Ministers will this week be under renewed pressure to scrap school tests for 11-year-olds amid mounting evidence that they undermine education standards and harm children.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - MPs say phonics will put children off reading for pleasure - The Guardian, Thursday July 7, 2011
Report criticises government's plans to test pupils on their reading ability at the age of sixLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - MPs question research evidence behind Reading Recovery - BBC, Friday December 18, 2009
MPs have criticised the research basis under which the government introduced a scheme for weak readers in England.
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Concerns about the administration of this year's school tests in England have prompted a call for payment to be withheld from the test contractor, ETS.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - MP under fire for questioning existence of dyslexia - The Guardian, Wednesday January 14, 2009
A Labour MP who claimed dyslexia was "cruel fiction" a to cover up bad teaching of reading and writing was fiercely criticised today by charities for the condition.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - MP brands dyslexia a 'fiction' - BBC, Wednesday January 14, 2009
A Labour MP has claimed dyslexia is a myth invented by education chiefs to cover up poor teaching.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Moving to rhymes 'may boost pupils' results' - BBC, Friday February 10, 2012
Researchers are to investigate whether following a set of systematic movements for 10 minutes a day in class can boost pupils' results.Researchers are to investigate whether following a set of systematic movements for 10 minutes a day in class can boost pupils' results.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Moves to curb coursework cheating - BBC, Tuesday November 22, 2005
Parents and teachers are to get clearer guidance on helping pupils with their coursework, in a bid to curb cheating.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Mouse deletes literacy hour - Times Educational Supplement, Friday April 14, 2006
The literacy hour is to be scrapped under proposed changes to primary lessons that will also require six-year-olds to learn to type their names and children to memorise times-tables a year earlier. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Motion critical of 'missing' poetry in schools - The Guardian, Monday June 27, 2005
Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, said he was "bitterly disappointed" that poetry and creative writing were largely absent in the secondary schools curriculum in England in contrast to the healthy state of poetry in primaries.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Motion cheers online poem archive - BBC, Wednesday December 14, 2005
UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has celebrated the successful start of the ambitious audio Poetry Online Archive.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Morris tells Balls to reform Sats - BBC, Tuesday July 22, 2008
Ed Balls should not resign over the Sats problems - but he should use them as an opportunity to overhaul the testing system, says Estelle Morris.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here