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- 'Oral sex' definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools - The Guardian, Monday January 25, 2010
A parent's complaint over a 'sexually graphic' definition has seen dictionaries removed from southern Californian schoolsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - JD Salinger dies, aged 91 - The Guardian, Thursday January 28, 2010
Catcher in the Rye author JD Salinger has died of natural causes at his home in New HampshireLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Phonics: lost in translation - The Guardian, Tuesday January 19, 2010
Synthetic phonics saw spectacular results in Scotland, but questions are now being asked about its use in England: are some children missing out?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 - 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 - At five, a third of poor boys cannot write their names, report says - The Guardian, Thursday January 28, 2010
Almost three-quarters of boys on free school meals are failing to keep pace with their peers, official figures showLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poor children a year behind in language skills - The Guardian, Monday February 15, 2010
Reading to children and taking them to libraries can limit effects of disadvantage, Sutton Trust study showsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Contest for Oxford poetry professor begins again - The Guardian, Thursday February 18, 2010
Geoffrey Hill and Anne Stevenson are among the names being suggested, as hunt for a successor to Ruth Padel beginsLink 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 - 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 - Ted Hughes joins literary greats at Poets' Corner - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Ted Hughes, poet laureate and author of such celebrated collections as Crow and Birthday Letters, is to be honoured by a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - David Almond wins Hans Christian Andersen medal - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
British author 'stunned' to take top international children's literature prizeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teachers plan to boycott school tests - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
Unions predict majority of teachers ballotted will vote for a boycott of national tests for 11-year-oldsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Andrew Motion to write sequel to Treasure Island - The Guardian, Friday March 26, 2010
The former poet laureate takes Jim Hawkins back to the island in search of the lost treasure 126 years after Stevenson's storLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Alice Oswald wins inaugural Ted Hughes award - The Guardian, Tuesday March 30, 2010
New prize sponsored by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy goes to 'unsettling and unsettled' collection Weeds and Wild FlowersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Teachers' union pushes for primary school tests boycott - The Guardian, Saturday April 3, 2010
The next government is heading for a summer of discontent with teachers, it emerged yesterday, Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Prize incentive to help improve literacy in the Commonwealth - The Guardian, Monday April 12, 2010
As former winners, we acknowledge the truly unique contribution the Commonwealth Writers' prize has made in promoting literacy as a tool to empower and enrich the lives of millions...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Romeo and Juliet get Twitter treatment - The Guardian, Monday April 12, 2010
Royal Shakespeare Company retelling Bard's Romeo and Juliet with cast of six over five weeks and 4,000 tweetsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Footballers pick books for boys - The Guardian, Tuesday April 13, 2010
Boys lag behind girls at school – and one reason is their resistance to reading. But Premier League footballers are coming to their rescue…Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here