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- Exams system risks 'damaging teenagers' reading ability' - Daily Telegraph, Sunday June 5, 2011
Well read is well bred. An education that does not provide the tools and the hunger to read beyond the narrow confines of a subject is, in the wider sense, no education at all.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Get London reading - London Evening Standard, Monday June 6, 2011
The London Evening Standard today launches an unprecedented campaign to Get London Reading - and we want you to help.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Rich children 'have superior vocabularies by age of five' - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday June 7, 2011
Children living in wealthy households have far superior vocabularies and problem-solving skills than their poorer peers by the age of five, according to research prepared for Scottish ministers.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The real Ophelia? 1569 coroner's report suggests Shakespeare link - The Guardian, Wednesday June 8, 2011
Death of Jane Shaxspere bore hallmarks of character and girl may even have been relative of playwrightLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Gruffalo creator Julia Donaldson is new children's laureate - The Guardian, Wednesday June 8, 2011
Donaldson plans to promote music and drama and champion libraries during her tenureLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Fund to boost London child numeracy and literacy - BBC, Wednesday June 8, 2011
Businesses in London have been asked to donate £3m to improve child numeracy and literacy skills in the capital.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Andrew Motion's dad – and the spectre of an art-free world - The Independent, Thursday June 9, 2011
An emotional appeal by the former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion to ring-fence arts spending during the current spending cuts.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Thousands of children 'fail to make progress in three-Rs' - Daily Telegraph, Thursday June 9, 2011
Up to a third of children are effectively going backwards in the three-Rs at secondary school, new figures suggest.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Mad professor goes global - and reflects on Literacy Strategy - The Guardian, Tuesday June 14, 2011
Michael Barber had lots of influence but very little publicity... Reflecting on the literacy and numeracy strategies, he says it was a mistake to underestimate their negative effect on teachers. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Sats tests must improve, says review - The Guardian, Thursday June 23, 2011
Exams for 11-year-olds in England will be changed to prevent teachers drilling pupils to pass and to create greater fairnessLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Creative writing tests limit creativity, Sats review finds - The Guardian, Thursday June 23, 2011
Team of headteachers led by peer recommends teachers assess writing throughout year, instead of in single testLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - What's the plan for Sats? - The Guardian, Thursday June 23, 2011
NASUWT General secretary Chris Keates is scathing about Bew report
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School Sats review: Lord Bew calls for more creativity - BBC, Thursday June 23, 2011
A review of Sats tests in England's primary schools is calling for changes to English tests to increase creativity - but with more focus on the basics.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Other countries are proving that test-driven punishment and reward is not the right way - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 24, 2011
To listen to the debate in England, one would think the adoption of test-driven accountability for schools was inevitable, Warwick Mansell writes.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Writing tests to be dropped from Sats - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 24, 2011
Bew review urges Government to place assessment in teachers’ handsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Education secretary scraps modular GCSEs from 2012 - BBC, Sunday June 26, 2011
Modular GCSEs are to be scrapped from September 2012 the Education Secretary Michael Gove has told the BBC.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Final year exams will replace modules for GCSE students - The Guardian, Sunday June 26, 2011
Modular exams, to be phased out next year, mean GCSEs are being chopped into 'bitesize chunks', claims Michael GoveLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The Poetry Society: are things going from bad to verse? - The Guardian, Monday June 27, 2011
There's precious little lyricism in the spat that seems to be going on at the Poetry SocietyLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Pupil's game helps with English grammar teaching - BBC, Monday June 27, 2011
A pupil from Peterborough has created a game that is being used in English lessons at schools across the city.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - School poetry slam: rhyme with a reason - The Guardian, Tuesday June 28, 2011
Video: teachers at Kingsbury high, in north London, take to the stage to rap the year 9 poetry syllabusLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here