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- Under-sevens 'too young to learn to read' - The Guardian, Thursday November 22, 2007
Children should not start formal learning until they are seven, according to a world expert in nursery education who will suggest today that teaching reading and writing earlier can put them off for life.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Under-fives struggle with writing - report - The Guardian, Friday October 12, 2007
One in seven children are unable to write their own name or recite the letters of the alphabet by the age of five, according to government figures. ...
There were 42% who struggled to write letters to Father Christmas or a simple shopping list.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK's Vicky Pollards 'left behind' - BBC, Tuesday December 12, 2006
Britain's teenagers risk becoming a nation of "Vicky Pollards" held back by poor verbal skills, research suggests. And like the Little Britain character the top 20 words used, including yeah, no, but and like, account for around a third of all words, the study says. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK schools slip down world rankings - The Guardian, Tuesday December 7, 2010
The UK is slipping down world education rankings in maths, reading and science, and has been overtaken by Poland and Norway, a major study of 65 countries reveals today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK plummets in world rankings for maths and reading - The Guardian, Tuesday December 4, 2007
The UK has plummeted in international rankings for maths and reading according to new findings from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK must embrace 'modern' English, report warns - The Guardian, Thursday March 15, 2007
The UK needs to abandon its outdated attitudes to English and embrace new forms of the language to maintain its influence in the global market, the leftwing thinktank Demos said today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK letting down dyslexic pupils, finds study - The Guardian, Friday November 16, 2007
The UK education system fails to identify whether pupils have dyslexia at a young age, leading to fewer dyslexic entrepreneurs in Britain, research has found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK falls to 14th place in global teaching table - The Guardian, Thursday November 29, 2007
The UK has slipped 10 places in a respected international league table for secondary school teaching in a new blow to the government's education record.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK children 'reading too early' - BBC, Thursday November 22, 2007
Children are too young to learn to read when they first start school in the UK, an academic claims.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK brought to book over our teenagers' lack of literacy skills - The Observer, Sunday December 12, 2010
The UK fared poorly last week when our teenagers' reading skills were ranked against those of 64 other nations, including those of our main competitors.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UA Fanthorpe, poet of the critics and public alike, dies aged 79 - The Guardian, Thursday April 30, 2009
The death was announced today of UA Fanthorpe, the sharp, witty poet equally admired by critics and the public. She was 79.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - U-turn on how to teach reading - Daily Telegraph, Thursday December 1, 2005
A return to traditional methods of teaching children to read will be announced today following a damning report into the Government's national literacy strategy. All infant and primary schools will need to tear up the Government's advice over the past seven years and prepare for a new framework.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Two-thirds of primary teachers are unconvinced about new curriculum - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 22, 2012
The government rejected advice from its own inspectorate by publishing a draft national curriculum that sets out what should be taught year by year in primaries, TES can reveal. Ofsted advised against a year-by-year prescription for topics in English, maths and science in its submission to the government, saying that teachers should have more freedom.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Two-thirds of parents 'never read to their babies' - The Guardian, Tuesday June 12, 2012
Booktrust survey finding raises fear that very young children are 'missing out on a crucial window for language development'Link 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 - Twits are top of the class - Times Educational Supplement, Friday April 13, 2007
More than nine out of 10 primary teachers read to their classes at least once a week despite the pressure of tests, a TES survey has found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Twilight leads boost in children's book sales - BBC, Friday January 15, 2010
The Twilight series of vampire books by Stephenie Meyer has boosted the sale of children's books and sales of picture books are also up.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tweeting vs reading: The row over technology in primary schools - The Independent, Thursday April 2, 2009
A government adviser wants English primary schoolchildren to be the most hi-tech in the world. But opponents worry that skills such as tweeting and blogging might come at the expense of the basics.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - TV threat to children's reading - BBC, Tuesday January 8, 2008
Children should spend less time playing computer games and more time reading with their parents, the Children's Secretary Ed Balls has said.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tram timetable arrives in A-level - BBC, Friday November 7, 2008
A tram timetable is being studied as part of an A-level English syllabus, sparking claims of dumbing down.
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