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- Waterstones drops its apostrophe - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday January 11, 2012
Waterstones, the bookshop, has dropped the apostrophe in its trading name and logo, sparking outrage among some of its customers.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Computer skills are the grammar of the 21st century, says Ed Vaizey - The Guardian, Tuesday January 10, 2012
Conservative culture minister says knowing how a computer works 'on a par with a knowledge of the arts and humanities'. Vaizey's cabinet colleague Michael Gove, the education secretary, will lay out plans to encourage greater engagement with technology in a speech in London on Wednesday.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - All children should read Harry Potter books by 11, says minister - Daily Telegraph, Friday January 6, 2012
Almost half of teenagers are failing to read books in their spare time after struggling to grasp the basics of literacy at a young age, a minister has warned.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Carol Ann Duffy wins Costa poetry prize - BBC, Tuesday January 3, 2012
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has won the Costa poetry prize, while author Andrew Miller has beaten Booker winner Julian Barnes to take best novel.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Exam boards hit by scandals and criticism - The Guardian, Monday January 2, 2012
A new survey of English teachers [by NATE] reveals intense worries about the consistency of exam marking at A-level, Warwick Mansell writes
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Shakespeare exam row after pupils told texts in advance - Daily Telegraph, Friday December 23, 2011
The William Shakespeare texts which feature in GCSE papers are being told to pupils in advance by the exam board Edexcel.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Curriculum changes pushed back to 2014 - BBC, Monday December 19, 2011
The overhaul of the national curriculum in England is to be delayed by a year, the education secretary has confirmed.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school league tables show 1,310 schools failing on English and maths - The Guardian, Thursday December 15, 2011
About 150 schools languishing beneath 'floor standard' for five years, though percentage of children meeting standards is upLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Russell Hoban obituary - The Guardian, Wednesday December 14, 2011
Russell Hoban, creator of Frances, the Mouse and His Child and Riddley Walker, has diedLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Two-thirds 'fail new primary phonics reading check' - BBC, Thursday December 8, 2011
The test-run of a new primary school reading check suggests two-thirds of pupils are likely to fail it when it is introduced in England next year.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 3.8 million children in the UK do not own a book - National Literacy Trust, Monday December 5, 2011
New report from National Literacy Trust reveals that the number of children who do not own a book is increasing. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Who needs libraries - The Guardian, Monday December 5, 2011
… when you've got flash cards and phonic flipcharts? Ros Asquith's cartoon poses the question.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading the riot act - The Guardian, Monday December 5, 2011
The former children's laureate, Michael Rosen, is not happy with the way reading is being taught in schools. Rosen says he recently received a letter from a teacher who claimed to have been "harassed" by an Ofsted inspector for running a "reading-for-pleasure" session during school time. Ofsted inspection guidance contains no mention of "books, provision of books, reading for pleasure or anything related," he says.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - How to engage the disengaged - The Guardian, Monday December 5, 2011
An English teacher discovers digital literacy really worksLink 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 - Don't call it like you see it - Economist, Tuesday November 22, 2011
Languages import foreign words and names all the time, and it’s hit or miss whether or not they're pronounced the original way. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Shelagh Delaney gave working-class women a taste of what was possible - The Guardian, Monday November 21, 2011
Delaney (who died on Sunday) wrote other plays but she'll always be remembered for A Taste of Honey, which caught the theatre of the time unawaresLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children 'dropping English literature in schools' - Daily Telegraph, Saturday November 19, 2011
Children risk growing up with a poor understanding of literature and history as rising numbers of pupils ditch traditional academic disciplines at secondary school, it is claimed today by a charity set up by the Prince of Wales.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School uses obscene 'Sachsgate' tapes in mock GCSE exam - Daily Telegraph, Thursday November 17, 2011
Pupils at a prestigious London school studied the “Sachsgate” phone calls made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand as part of their mock GCSE English exam, it has emerged.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Dorothy Heathcote obituary - The Guardian, Thursday November 17, 2011
Larger than life teacher who placed drama at the heart of educationLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here