English in the News
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- I loved our 'failing' school, flailing teacher realises - The Guardian, Thursday February 10, 2011
You can't beat an inner-city, state school, sixth form – sussed, curious, hungry and bright as pins. Ah, the dappled light on shades of academe as we thrilled to John Donne or Emily Bronte or the Clash. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of schools make the news - BBC, Thursday March 13, 2008
Schools across the UK are creating their own news reports and broadcasting them with the help of the BBC.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of Sats examiners wrongly disqualified - The Guardian, Thursday June 4, 2009
Exams chaos for second year running as inaccurate dummy paper is used to grade markersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of primaries to boycott Sats - The Guardian, Thursday May 6, 2010
Pupils in more than 900 schools will not sit tests next weekLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of heads report concerns over Sats marks - BBC, Wednesday July 6, 2011
More than 300 heads in England have lodged concerns with the National Association of Head Teachers over the marking of some of this year's national curriculum tests, known as Sats.... The calls relate largely to a section of the English test, where pupils are asked to produce a piece of creative writing.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hundreds of authors urge PM to tackle child illiteracy - The Guardian, Saturday December 15, 2007
More than 500 writers - including Nick Hornby, Ian Rankin, Joanna Trollope, Kate Mosse and Alexander McCall Smith - have called on Gordon Brown to confront the issue of childhood illiteracy. The authors say they are deeply concerned about low levels of literacy, and have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for "a push" on the issue, so that "no child is left behind".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Humanities to lose English universities teaching grant - BBC, Tuesday October 26, 2010
Teaching grants for degree courses in arts, humanities and social sciences at England's universities are likely to be phased out under government plans.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - However busy you are, read to your children, says PM - London Evening Standard, Wednesday January 18, 2012
David Cameron today urged London parents to read to their children every night no matter how busy they are.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - How to improve literacy in a time of austerity - The Independent, Friday March 16, 2012
Our national problem with reading goes beyond schools and runs deep in our society
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 - How Tarell Alvin McCraney took Hamlet back to school - The Guardian, Friday February 5, 2010
Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney survived an abusive childhood to become one of American theatre's brightest young talents. He tells Nosheen Iqbal why getting a bunch of fidgety 11-year-olds to be excited by Shakespeare is his toughest challenge yet – but one he couldn't resistLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - How reading disorder label fails thousands - Times Educational Supplement, Friday February 26, 2010
Other learning difficulties go unrecognised once pupils receive dyslexia diagnosis, academic warnsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - How plays make a hit with Miss - The Times, Monday June 26, 2006
Who decides which new plays make it into the classroom?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - How phonics became easy as a-b-c - BBC, Friday March 17, 2006
A report on how young children in England should be taught to read is expected to endorse a phonics-based approach.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Holding the phonics: a year wasted - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 18, 2007
Publishers report poor sales for schemes after the Government takes 12 months to issue official guidance A YEAR of phonics teaching has been lost as schools have waited for official guidance. Jim Rose, the former chief primary inspector who carried out a review into how it was taught in 2005, concluded that, by five, all children should be getting a 20-minute discrete lesson in synthetic phonics. The Government then announced a raft of consultations and training.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hiya pupils, please avoid slang, ta - The Guardian, Tuesday February 14, 2012
Sheffield Springs academy asks students to stop using slang words inside the school gates to improve employabilityLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Higher English 'will include Scottish writing' - BBC, Wednesday January 25, 2012
Answering a question on a Scottish piece of writing is to become compulsory in Higher English under plans from the Scottish government. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Help pupils make sense of literature - Times Educational Supplement, Friday February 25, 2005
English A-levels are too prescriptive, narrow and out-of-date, says teaching association. Joseph Lee reportsEnglish teachers are calling for literary theory to be taught at A-level because the exams are not preparing pupils for university studies.
Questions about the nature and purpose of literature should join practical criticism and Shakespeare in the curriculum, says the National Association for the Teaching of English's post-16 committee.
Note The article is in response to text : message - The future of A Level English published by NATE earlier this year and available from NATE bookshop.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
- Hello Dolly, this is London - Times Educational Supplement, Friday December 7, 2007
Backwoods Barbie Ms Parton has bounced into Britain to launch her children's book scheme. The lights dimmed. The music began. The spotlights shone. And a diminutive figure in rhinestones and sequins stepped on to the stage.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Hello again, Janet and John - The Guardian, Friday December 2, 2005
The c-a-t is back on the m-a-t and traditionalists everywhere are triumphant. The old ways are the best, and sometimes, of course, they are right. But it might be a mistake to assume that the teaching of reading through synthetic phonics - the c-a-t approach - is the right answer for every child in every classroom.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here