English in the News
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- Ofsted criticises Three Rs 'initiative overload' - BBC, Wednesday February 24, 2010
National strategies in England to improve literacy, numeracy and schools boosted learning, but suffered because of "initiative overload", Ofsted says.Link 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 - Boys prefer to read simpler books, survey suggests - BBC, Monday March 1, 2010
Boys choose to read less challenging books than girls and this gets more pronounced as they get older, according to a UK-wide survey of reading habits.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boys prefer to read simpler books, survey suggests - BBC, Monday March 1, 2010
Boys choose to read less challenging books than girls and this gets more pronounced as they get older, according to a UK-wide survey of reading habits.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Universities should set A-levels, say Tories - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday March 2, 2010
Mr Gove also said that the National Curriculum would be rewritten in the first year of a Conservative government, with special focus on the basics of English, mathematics and science. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Tory pledge to overhaul curriculum in English, maths and the sciences - The Guardian, Tuesday March 2, 2010
Michael Gove promises an end to 'political control' of exams and says universities would help to choose A-level contentLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Online dictionary developed to translate 'edubabble' - Daily Telegraph, Friday March 5, 2010
An online dictionary to explain the opaque terms and phrases - or "edubabble" - used by educationalists has been developed to help parents, students and even confused teachers.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The teacher with the write stuff for black boys - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 5, 2010
Author identifies gap in children's fiction market and fills it with her own burgeoning publishing companyLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Scrap GCSEs at 16, says Baroness Morris - Daily Telegraph, Monday March 8, 2010
GCSEs for 16-year-olds should be abolished, according to a former Labour education secretary.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - They can't read, can't write, keep time or be tidy: Tesco director's verdict on school-leavers - The Guardian, Wednesday March 10, 2010
Lucy Neville-Rolfe attacks the quality of education received by many of the young Britons recruited by the retailerLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ed Balls tells teachers: don't back test boycott - Daily Telegraph, Wednesday March 10, 2010
Ed Balls signalled a further retreat from Sats tests today as Labour attempted to ward off the threat of industrial action from teachers.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - All the classroom's a stage, as RSC helps bring Shakespeare to life - The Guardian, Thursday March 11, 2010
Teachers urged to drop 'chalk and talk' technique and let pupils mirror methods of actors by walking aroundLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Say what? A parents' guide to UK teenage slang - BBC, Thursday March 11, 2010
We are all British, right? We all speak the same language, surely? Not according to a very unscientific survey carried out by BBC News School Report.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Thousands of pupils 'going backwards' in English and maths - Daily Telegraph, Friday March 12, 2010
Around 200,000 children are effectively going backwards in the three-Rs at secondary school, new figures suggest.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - A tempest of four legs and two voices - The Guardian, Saturday March 13, 2010
Letters in response to RSC's teaching Shakespeare campaign.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - 'Shakespeare's lost play' no hoax, says expert - The Guardian, Monday March 15, 2010
New evidence that Double Falsehood was, as 18th-century playwright Lewis Theobald claimed, based on Bard's CardenioLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - David Beckham's ankle immortalised by poet laureate - BBC, Tuesday March 16, 2010
Now, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has penned a poem with the perhaps unusual inspiration of David Beckham's ankle injury.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Is there any real value in learning poetry by heart? Are the Conservatives right to want to bring it - The Independent, Thursday March 18, 2010
Are the Conservatives right to want to bring it back to schools?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Free internet access planned to boost library use - BBC, Monday March 22, 2010
Free internet access and e-books could help reverse a decline in the number of people using libraries in England, according to a new government review.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Parents struggle to help with homework - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Five out of six parents find helping with homework too difficult, study shows. .... One in three fathers find English is toughest to assist with, compared with 10% of mothers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here