English in the News
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- More pupils to get Three Rs help - BBC, Monday September 1, 2008
Struggling pupils are to get one-to-one help with the Three Rs under a trio of government-backed programmes beginning or being extended this term.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More pupils do not speak English - BBC, Friday September 29, 2006
One in eight pupils at primary schools in England speaks English as a second language, official statistics show.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More pupils achieve top GCSE grades - The Guardian, Thursday October 18, 2007
The government today said it had passed its target of increasing the number of pupils achieving A* to C grades in their GCSEs. ... Some 46.5% of pupils achieved at least five A* to C grades, including maths and English, up 0.7 percentage points on last year. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More non-English speaking pupils - BBC, Tuesday April 29, 2008
The share of pupils in England's schools speaking English as a second language has risen to a record high, government figures show.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More leave primary with good 'three Rs' grasp - BBC, Tuesday August 2, 2011
The number of children leaving primary school in England with a good grasp of reading, writing and maths has increased again, government data shows.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More intensive lessons for children failing to read - The Guardian, Thursday December 7, 2006
The huge "reading recovery" package to boost the skills of five- and six-year-old children who are falling behind in primary school shows how worried the government is about its stalling literacy drive.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More errors follow Evening Standard illiteracy report - Full Fact, Thursday June 2, 2011
The problem with using shocking stats that take a bit of explainingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More children read websites than comics, survey finds - The Guardian, Tuesday August 23, 2011
Literacy Trust poll of children's reading habits shows websites and emails displacing books and comicsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More 11-year-olds reach basic standard at school - The Guardian, Friday December 2, 2005
The number of 11-year-olds reaching the expected standard in English and maths increased slightly this year, according to key stage 2 league tables published today - but leading headteachers branded the system pointless and called for it to be scrapped.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Modern children 'lack the attention to read Dickens' - Daily Telegraph, Sunday February 5, 2012
A generation of schoolchildren lack the skills needed to read Dickens after being “reared on dreadful television programmes”, a leading author has warned.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Mixed-ability classes just as effective, study finds - The Guardian, Monday October 31, 2005
Government plans to teach more pupils in ability-based sets will not improve performance, according to a report commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills.
[The report, Publication Code RR688, can be found on the DfES site]Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Miss Rusty: I was promoted one day, suspended over racy novel the next - Daily Telegraph, Thursday January 13, 2011
English teacher Leonora Rustamova was promoted just the day before her suspension over a risqué novel that she had written to encourage problem pupils to read, a tribunal has heard.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ministers want primary schools to raise pupils' results - BBC, Friday December 4, 2009
They are the schools that fall below a government "floor target" for attainment in the English and maths national curriculum tests, or "Sats".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ministers accused of free book funding 'partial U-turn' - BBC, Sunday December 26, 2010
The government has been accused of performing a partial U-turn over funding for a charity that gives free books to children.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ministers 'too involved' in Sats - BBC, Wednesday July 22, 2009
Government interference was partly to blame for delays in issuing school Sats results in England last year, MPs say.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Minister seeks more help for dyslexic pupils - The Guardian, Wednesday May 7, 2008
The government has ordered a review of how schools should educate the country's estimated 300,000 dyslexic children, after admitting that many are being left to flounder without tailored teaching.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Minister secures place of 'heritage' novels on schools list - The Guardian, Wednesday August 9, 2006
Austen, Dickens, Trollope and two Brontë sisters are staying in. But Orwell, Hemingway and Doris Lessing may be removed from the curriculum for 11- to 14-year-olds, the education secretary will announce today. Alan Johnson has moved to quash reports that changes to the key stage three curriculum will mean a "dumbing down" of English lessons.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Minister orders GCSE exam rethink - BBC, Wednesday October 25, 2006
Ministers are to consider whether state school pupils should be allowed to study International GCSEs. IGCSEs involve less coursework and some consider them to be more challenging and better preparation for A-levels than traditional GCSEs. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Mind your language - and know what it means - The Guardian, Tuesday May 16, 2006
We should be teaching political correctness in schools, says Philip BeadleLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Mind games - The Guardian, Tuesday May 8, 2007
Should comedy be on the curriculum? Alfred Hickling meets two performers taking the art of improvisation into the classroom Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here