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- Lad lit - The Guardian, Tuesday May 24, 2005
Why are English topics in tests at 11 and 14 so boy-friendly? Anthea Davey has some ideas.Which of the following is the odd one out? a) Lorries; b) Cowboys; c) Robots; d) Ballerinas. There are two possible answers. One would be that conventionally d is of greater interest to girls, while answers a-c are more generally associated with boys.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
- Lack of English skills puts pressure on schools - The Guardian, Monday December 17, 2007
Children with English as their first language are in the minority in more than 1,300 schools, according to official figures.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour's school test fiasco: After 12 years, ministers FINALLY do a U-turn and tear up SATs exams - Daily Mail, Wednesday October 15, 2008
SATs tests for 14-year-olds have been scrapped in a humiliating U-turn by Children's Secretary Ed Balls. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour's 500,000 primary school 'illiterates' - Yorkshire Post, Monday August 3, 2009
More than half a million children will have left primary school unable to read or write since Labour came to power, it was claimed yesterday as the latest primary school test scores are published.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour U-turn scraps tests for 14-year-olds - The Guardian, Wednesday October 15, 2008
The government yesterday abolished Sats examinations for 14-year-olds in a move triggered by the collapse of this year's marking process and a string of high profile reports critical of the tests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour to junk Tony Blair's flagship school reform - The Guardian, Thursday June 25, 2009
In a totemic break from the Blair years, next week's education white paper will signal the end of Labour's national strategies for schools, which includes oversight of the literacy and numeracy hours in primaries. The changes will strip away centralised prescription of teaching methods and dramatically cut the use of private consultants currently employed to improve schools.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Labour to 'guarantee' C in English and maths - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 11, 2011
GCSE pledge part of ‘major rethink’ on educationLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Knighthood for phonics champion - BBC, Friday June 15, 2007
A champion of the traditional teaching of reading has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Knife crime: Can drama help stop it? - The Independent, Thursday September 11, 2008
They were young dropouts on the road to ruin. Then they discovered the theatre – and a whole new sense of self. Angela Neustatter reports on a remarkable programme that's turning lives aroundLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Key schools policy to be ditched - BBC, Friday June 26, 2009
The government is set to abandon one of its most significant education policies in primary schools in England. From 2011 schools will no longer have to implement national strategies in literacy and numeracy.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ken Boston: Big Brother is testing you - The Guardian, Tuesday September 25, 2007
Having transformed the exam industry's efficiency, Ken Boston now plans much more fundamental change, says Peter Wilby Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Kelly launches literacy drive - The Guardian, Tuesday July 26, 2005
Thousands of children who struggle to read will receive one-to-one catch-up lessons in a drive to break down class barriers in schools, Ruth Kelly, the education secretary, will announce today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Kelly defends plans to reform school exams - The Guardian, Wednesday March 2, 2005
The education secretary, Ruth Kelly, clashed with MPs today over her plans for reforming school exams. Ms Kelly defended her decision to reject proposals from the former chief schools inspector, Sir Mike Tomlinson, to replace A-levels and GCSEs with a new diploma. Despite near-universal criticism from teachers, students and school inspectors last week, Ms Kelly insisted the support for the diploma had been "greatly overestimated". Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Kafka confuses tests for 14s - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 18, 2007
IT IS one of the most analysed short stories of the 20th-century, a dark tale of alienation that has been taken to prefigure some of the worst totalitarian excesses to come. But for some on the receiving end, Franz Kafka's story Metamorphosis carried a whole new set of torturous implications last week, when it became the basis for a national test taken by 600,000 13 and 14-year-olds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Just the phonics - The Guardian, Tuesday December 6, 2005
Inevitably there was enormous speculation about the contents of Jim Rose's long-awaited report on reading, published last Thursday, not least among educationists. But the team of English specialists who have been helping the Teacher Development Agency [sic] to draw up new standards for English teachers feel miffed that no one in government bothered to tip them off about his recommendation....Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Jumping to the standard conclusions - The Guardian, Wednesday August 20, 2003
Sats results released this week are as usual being interpreted in extravagant ways, in terms of what can possibly be concluded from them in relation to educational standards in our schools.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Joint unions call for test review - BBC, Monday September 12, 2005
A review of the tests children sit at the end of primary school in England has been called for by all six main education unions.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Joined to Seamus Heaney's Human Chain - The Guardian, Monday February 7, 2011
The winning essay from this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry Shadowing SchemeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Join the Campaign for Fun! - The Guardian, Monday January 24, 2011
On what is officially the most miserable day of the year, it's a very good time to sign up to a drive to make children's reading fun again, says Jeremy Strong.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Johnson rejects tests scrap call - BBC, Sunday June 10, 2007
Calls to scrap national exams sat by under-16s in England have been rejected by the education secretary.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here