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- Interference from Ed Balls contributed to Sats fiasco, MPs report finds - The Guardian, Thursday July 23, 2009
Exam body thwarted over reforms, committee says; Ministers knew of test problems at earlier stageLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Amazon Kindle users surprised by 'Big Brother' move - The Guardian, Friday July 17, 2009
Owners of Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader have received a nasty surprise, after discovering that copies of books by George Orwell had been deleted from their gadgets without their knowledge.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats results: a quarter unable to read properly or do sums - The Guardian, Tuesday August 4, 2009
English results drop for first time in history of the tests, while teachers raise concerns over quality of markingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats marking disaster inquiry 'like an episode of The Thick of It' - The Guardian, Wednesday May 20, 2009
Head of report into Sats fiasco says it was 'inappropriate' for education ministers to second someone from their office to help with inquiryLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Oxford professor of poetry Ruth Padel resigns after smear allegations - The Guardian, Monday May 25, 2009
First woman elected Oxford's professor of poetry resigns amid claims she tipped off journalists about allegations that her rival for the post, Derek Walcott, had sexually harassed studentsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Roger McGough takes a lead from Carol Ann Duffy - The Guardian, Thursday May 28, 2009
Hay festival: Poet welcomes appointment of new laureate, and follows her look at the wives of famous men with sequence on famous women's husbandsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Alice Munro wins Man Booker International prize - The Guardian, Wednesday May 27, 2009
Judges acclaim 'practically perfect' work of acclaimed Canadian short story writerLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teachers report Sats marking delay - The Guardian, Thursday May 28, 2009
One year on from exams fiasco, markers report last-minute recruitment drives and unsatisfactory checking systemsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Love poetry is hardest to write, says new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy - The Guardian, Thursday May 28, 2009
Speaking at the Guardian Hay festival, Carol Ann Duffy explained why, when it comes to poetry, love is both the 'most exciting' and 'most challenging' subjectLink 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 - Bronte, Blake, Wilde – read their hand-written manuscripts online - The Guardian, Friday June 5, 2009
This week the extraordinary British Literary Manuscripts Online (BLMO) launches, featuring more than 400,000 pages of poems, plays, novels, private correspondence, diaries, drawings and handwritten notes by Britain's literary giants.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The ups and downs of a story - The Guardian, Tuesday June 9, 2009
As he bows out as children's laureate today, Michael Rosen looks back on the warmth and enthusiasm of his young audiences ... and the blank looks of politiciansLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Paperless classroom becoming a reality - The Guardian, Wednesday June 10, 2009
Information available to pupils digitally on the up; one million children still have no computer at homeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Must do better: Ofsted order to schools as third of English lessons judged not good enough - The Guardian, Friday June 19, 2009
Schools have been ordered to overhaul their English teaching after a three-year study by Ofsted, published today, found 30% of lessons are not good enough and little attempt is made to encourage teenagers to read for pleasure.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Scribes of eternity - The Guardian, Saturday October 10, 2009
Poets deserve our thanks for their dedication to the craft of capturing and preserving experienceLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teaching school texts by txt - The Guardian, Tuesday October 13, 2009
Teachers should relax about pupils' mobile phones – they can boost standards and liven up the lesson if used imaginativelyLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poems you learned at school - The Guardian, Thursday October 8, 2009
Can you still put a poet to a famous couplet, or have you become perplexed by poesy? Take our quiz and find out ...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Top ten nursery rhymes - The Guardian, Thursday October 8, 2009
Booktrust asked 2,500 poeple [sic] to name their favourite nursery rhyme. All together now ... here are the top 10 -(illustrated)
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Start school at six, key schools report recommends - The Guardian, Friday October 16, 2009
Schoolchildren should not start formal lessons until they turn six, and Sats should be scrapped to relieve the damaging pressure England's young pupils face, the biggest inquiry into primary education for 40 years concludes today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Of primary importants - The Guardian, Saturday October 17, 2009
Encounters with writing by student critics leaves me thinking school ought to start earlier, not laterLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here