English in the News
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- New reading test for six-year-olds spelt out - BBC, Monday November 22, 2010
Ministers have given more details of plans to bring in reading tests for six-year-olds in England.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - All six-year-olds to be given basic reading test - Daily Telegraph, Monday November 22, 2010
Infants will be given a reading test after just a year of school to identify children struggling the most with basic literacy, it emerged today.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Michael Gove sets tough new targets for secondary schools - The Guardian, Wednesday November 24, 2010
Schools will be set tough new targets, with secondary schools considered failing if less than 35% of their pupils achieve five good GCSEs, including English and maths. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Is the zort-and-koob reading test for six-year-olds simply too monstrous? - Times Educational Supplement, Friday November 26, 2010
Plans for a new national reading test for six-year-olds will feature monsters and rely on children being able to read nonsense words such as zort and koob.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - English degrees for £27k - who's buying? - The Guardian, Tuesday November 30, 2010
As protests continue over tuition fees, John Sutherland wonders what's to become of arts courses. Will they be seen as worth the money?Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Head teacher forced to apologise for error-laden report - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday November 30, 2010
A head teacher has been forced to apologise after a school report was sent to a parent containing 14 spelling and grammatical errors.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Robert Burns museum opens at his former home in Ayrshire - The Guardian, Wednesday December 1, 2010
National Trust opens Robert Burns museum after two-year delay, hoping people won't be tim'rous about comingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK schools slip down world rankings - The Guardian, Tuesday December 7, 2010
The UK is slipping down world education rankings in maths, reading and science, and has been overtaken by Poland and Norway, a major study of 65 countries reveals today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - OECD school league tables: pupils outperformed in reading test - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday December 7, 2010
UK schoolchildren fell from 17th in to 25th in an international league table charting standards in reading, it emerged today.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - UK brought to book over our teenagers' lack of literacy skills - The Observer, Sunday December 12, 2010
The UK fared poorly last week when our teenagers' reading skills were ranked against those of 64 other nations, including those of our main competitors.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - When will English come to a full stop? - The Observer, Sunday December 12, 2010
There are predictions that, like Latin before it, English must inevitably lose its global dominance. Robert McCrum is not convincedLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - David Crystal: champion of the English language - The Guardian, Monday December 13, 2010
For more than 30 years the linguist has been offering us rich gems of information about how we speak and writeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Nearly 1,000 primary schools fail to meet targets - BBC, Tuesday December 14, 2010
Almost 1,000 primary schools in England which staged national tests for 11-year-olds this year do not meet new minimum standards. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sure Start 'has failed to boost children's literacy and numeracy' - The Guardian, Tuesday December 14, 2010
Researchers claim early years programmes have done little to improve attainment of children from poorest homesLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends - The Guardian, Thursday December 16, 2010
Harvard and Google say they have developed a way to identify cultural trends over the past 200 years using a database of 5m digitised booksLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Half of boys, age five, 'struggling in basics' - BBC, Thursday December 16, 2010
More than half of five-year-old boys are struggling in the basics after a year at primary school, official figures show.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Unions up the pressure over Sats - BBC, Friday December 17, 2010
Three teaching unions have joined forces to urge the government to scrap Sats tests for 11-year-olds in England.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children to be given reading 'MOT' at six - Daily Telegraph, Friday December 17, 2010
Pupils will be given an ''MOT'' to ensure they can read properly at the age of six, Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has said.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - One in 11 boys leaves primary school 'unable to read' - BBC, Friday December 17, 2010
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government withdraws all funding for book-gifting programmes - The Guardian, Tuesday December 21, 2010
Booktrust's schemes to give free books to children in crisis after public subsidy axed. Former children's laureate Michael Rosen said that he was "absolutely appalled and utterly enraged" by the news.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here