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- Computers 'can raise attainment' - BBC, Sunday June 24, 2007
High levels of computer technology in schools can improve attainment to an extent, a four-year study has found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pullman children's book voted best in 70 years - The Guardian, Friday June 22, 2007
The opening book of His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman's epic trilogy of wonder and love, won the supreme accolade in its field last night. Northern Lights was declared the finest children's book of the past 70 years, handsomely topping a readers' poll as the best winner of the annual Carnegie medal published in that time.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tale of death and depression wins children's award - The Times, Thursday June 21, 2007
Meg Rosoff has won Britain's most prestigious prize in children's literature today with her novel written for teenagers about death, depression and sex.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Existential tale takes children's fiction prize - The Guardian, Thursday June 21, 2007
Meg Rosoff's uncompromising novel about a 15-year-old Luton boy's existential crisis has won the 70th Carnegie Medal. Just in Case, the author's follow-up to her prize-winning debut How I Live Now, was praised by the judges as "outstanding" and the "clear winner".Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Beatles beat the Bard as cultural reference point - The Guardian, Wednesday June 20, 2007
William Shakespeare's 400-year reign as the world's primary transmitter of the English language has finally been ended - by John, Paul, George and Ringo and their album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government launches phonics teaching guide - The Guardian, Tuesday June 19, 2007
The government today renewed its commitment to phonics as it unveiled a new teaching programme aimed at the under-sevens. The Letters and Sounds programme, which is available free to schools, has been developed by the Department for Education and Skills in conjunction with Jim Rose, a former schools inspector whose review of reading among young children last year recommended that schools adopt the phonics teaching method in class.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - OK then, let's discuss raising your hand in class - The Guardian, Tuesday June 19, 2007
Running a class discussion can be hard, which is why Dfes guidance is welcome, says Philip Beadle Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading system goes into schools - BBC, Tuesday June 19, 2007
Primary schools in England are being sent DVDs and booklets on how best to teach children to read.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The perfect world - The Guardian, Tuesday June 19, 2007
Welcome to the latest competition to find the best teenage writing talent in the UK and Eire today. This is the fifth such competition. The best eight to 10 storiesreceived will be published the following year as a book called The Perfect World?Link 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 - Don't lose sight of literacy in the return to primary 'topics' - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 15, 2007
It seems inevitable in things educational that what goes around must at some point come around once more: in this case, the topic. Once very popular among primary schools, in the dim mists of time before the literacy and numeracy hours took hold, topics were the way most children came to terms with the primary curriculum [says Bethan Marshall].Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Rosen's sign of the rhymes - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 15, 2007
MICHAEL ROSEN, the new children's laureate, has kicked off his two-year appointment with an attack on testing and synthetic phonics. The 61-year-old poet wore a striped yellow T-shirt, black combat trousers and brown trainers for his inauguration at Bafta in London's Piccadilly.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pity Lost souls who sneer at Hardy - Times Educational Supplement, Thursday June 14, 2007
Why is knowledge of the novels of Thomas Hardy any better than a knowledge of Lost?"Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Man Booker International judges honour Chinua Achebe - The Guardian, Wednesday June 13, 2007
'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist including Carlos Fuentes and Doris Lessing, signaling the ?60,000 prize's status as an authentic world award Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Watchdog reveals plans to scrap GCSE coursework - The Guardian, Wednesday June 13, 2007
Traditional GCSE coursework will be abolished in most subjects as the government's exams watchdog tries to clamp down on internet plagiarism and help from parents and teachers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - GCSE home coursework is scrapped - BBC, Wednesday June 13, 2007
Traditional GCSE coursework is to be scrapped for most academic subjects following a report by exam watchdogs. From 2009, it will be replaced by what is being called "controlled assessment", where pupils will do projects under supervision in class. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Forever young - The Guardian, Tuesday June 12, 2007
Poet and writer Michael Rosen thinks that educationalists have taken all the fun out of kids' poetry. But, as the new children's laureate, he's here to change all that. He tells Simon Hattenstone about the humour, politics and personal tragedies that have shaped his perspective on the world Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - In praise of ... Michael Rosen - The Guardian, Tuesday June 12, 2007
The amazing thing about the post of children's laureate is that no one thought of the idea before. For, in less than a decade, the laureate has become a treasured voice in the national conversation. That is because appointment as laureate involves both personal recognition and public responsibility.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - End exams for children under 16, says watchdog - The Guardian, Monday June 11, 2007
SATs make English pupils most tested in the world.
Parents sceptical of league tables, GTC study finds 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