English in the News
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- The Christmas Truce A poem for Armistice Day - The Guardian, Friday November 11, 2011
A poem for Armistice Day by Carol Ann DuffyLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading with child 'highlight of the day for parents' - BBC, Wednesday November 9, 2011
Parents in England and Northern Ireland are spending more time reading to their children for pleasure, a survey for the reading scheme Booktime suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading to children has long impact, says OECD study - BBC, Tuesday November 8, 2011
Children whose parents frequently read with them in their first year of school are still showing the benefit when they are 15, says an international study.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teach Jane Austen, state schools to be told - Daily Telegraph, Sunday November 6, 2011
State schools will be told to teach the classic English novels they currently ignore in a radical overhaul of what is taught in the classroom.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prince Charles's elite teachers will bring back Chaucer and the Crusades - Daily Telegraph, Sunday November 6, 2011
The Prince of Wales is to create a cadre of elite teachers to bring neglected areas of study back to England’s schools.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Bright pupils struggling with basic grammar, says top head - Daily Telegraph, Friday November 4, 2011
One of Britain’s top private schools is introducing back-to-basics lessons in grammar amid fears that growing numbers of new pupils lack the most basic command of written English.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - SQA reports highlight pupils performance in exams - BBC, Friday November 4, 2011
Many pupils who sat Standard Grade and Higher exams earlier this year struggled with basic skills, according to Scotland's exams board.... n English, knowing when to start a new paragraph and use a comma or apostrophe caused problems for some candidates.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The rime of the raving dotard - The Guardian, Thursday November 3, 2011
Learning poems by heart at school has numerous benefits - not least having them shouted at you on the street by erstwhile pupilsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Thousands of primary school exam papers reviewed - Daily Telegraph, Thursday November 3, 2011
Rising numbers of pupils had primary school exams re-marked this year amid concerns that thousands of papers were given the wrong grade.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Scrap reading tests for pupils aged 6, experts urge ministers - The Independent, Friday October 28, 2011
Leading literacy experts urge the Government to abandon plans for a compulsory national reading test for all six-year-olds next summer. [NATE was among the signatories.]
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Read all about it: Britain's shameful literacy crisis - The Guardian, Wednesday October 26, 2011
So rioters shunned bookshops because they didn't offer anything they wanted? That points to a debilitating exclusion from a civilised cultureLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - World Book Night giveaway: a night of Good Omens or Misery? - The Guardian, Monday October 24, 2011
Curl up with Pratchett, Gaiman, King or Austen for one night of fiction, when one million books will be distributed for free – from a list of 25 – for second World Book Night on 23 April 2012Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Harold Pinter's forgotten sketch rediscovered after more than 50 years - The Guardian, Monday October 24, 2011
Surprise find at British Library is the script of 'Umbrellas', part of a 1960 revue performed only once at the Nottingham PlayhouseLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Why do they keep trotting out this Looney idea about Shakespeare? - Daily Telegraph, Saturday October 22, 2011
A Gateshead schoolteacher's bizarre conspiracy theory has now become the basis for an entire Hollywood blockbuster, Terry Wogan reports
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Digital textbooks open a new chapter - BBC, Wednesday October 19, 2011
South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Novelist Catherine Fisher named young people's laureate - BBC, Tuesday October 18, 2011
A writer from Newport has been named Wales' first Young People's Laureate.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ignore the Booker brouhaha. Readability is no test for literature - The Guardian, Tuesday October 18, 2011
The Booker prize judges misunderstand literature and its purpose. Would they blame maths for being difficult?, says jeanette Winterson
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - People of Britain, it's time to carve a few lines of poetry into your wheelbarrow - The Guardian, Sunday October 9, 2011
Winning Words is a great opportunity to have billboards saying 'Downward to darkness, on extended wings', rather than 'I'm lovin' it'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New GCSE controlled assessments are 'hindering children's learning' - The Guardian, Friday October 7, 2011
Study by qualifications quango Ofqual shows that reforms to GCSE coursework have reduced teaching and learning timeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ofqual: 'wide-spread concerns' over controlled assessment - Daily Telegraph, Friday October 7, 2011
A decision to scrap traditional GCSE coursework has damaged children’s education and caused chaos in schools, according to the official exams watchdog.
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