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- Boys prefer to read simpler books, survey suggests - BBC, Monday March 1, 2010
Boys choose to read less challenging books than girls and this gets more pronounced as they get older, according to a UK-wide survey of reading habits.
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Every secondary school should put up a separate "boys' bookshelf" packed with spy novels and action stories to encourage more boys to read, the education secretary said today. Alan Johnson warned that working class boys faced an increasingly bleak future as they fall behind girls in English at school.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boys lag behind girls after two school years - The Independent, Thursday November 11, 2010
Boys are lagging behind girls in the basics after just two years at school, official figures showed today. Fewer seven-year-old boys reached the standard expected of them in reading, writing, maths and science than girls of the same age.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boys closing reading gap with girls - The Guardian, Tuesday February 28, 2012
What Kids Are Reading 2012 report finds children are now reading to the same level of difficulty across gendersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boys beat girls for reading support - The Guardian, Wednesday April 16, 2008
Girls are in danger of being overlooked by current education policy drives that focus on boys, the National Literacy Trust charity warned today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boys are more confident communicators, survey finds - BBC, Wednesday May 4, 2011
More boys than girls feel confident expressing their views in class and social situations, a survey of eight- to 16-year-olds in the UK has found.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boycott of school tests moves closer with union ballot - Daily Telegraph, Saturday October 31, 2009
A boycott of SATs tests will move a step closer on Monday as the biggest teacher union in the country launches a ballot of members. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Boxes of Sats 'remain unmarked' - BBC, Tuesday July 15, 2008
Boxes of unmarked English test scripts are sitting uncollected in a school, despite the exam chief's claim to MPs that delayed marking was 100% complete.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Books that inspire educationists - BBC, Friday September 28, 2007
Mike Baker talks about the books that have inspired people in education.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Books need analysis - The Guardian, Tuesday October 7, 2003
On Philip Pullman's assessment of the current state of English teaching in schools as bedevilled by testing and markingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Books may be the ideal gap-filler - BBC, Monday July 9, 2007
People in the UK seem to have been reading more over the past quarter of a century, a study suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Books for pleasure - The Guardian, Monday February 12, 2007
The school English syllabus should above all aim to instill a sense of the joy of reading, says Roy HattersleyLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Books for life - The Guardian, Tuesday April 19, 2005
Reading must become a priority in children's lives if they are to do well academically, says Cyril TaylorDespite substantial progress in recent years, through initiatives such as the national literacy hour, almost a quarter of our children do not achieve the required level 4 in the key stage 2 test for 11-year-olds in English....
The Specialist Schools Trust (SST) has received a substantial grant to trial the Accelerated Reader school reading management software in 14 London schools.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
- Books denied to 600,000 - Times Educational Supplement, Friday May 20, 2011
Full extent of swingeing cuts to school library services revealed for the first time in TES investigationLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Booker judge's fears for reading in the age of Twitter - Daily Telegraph, Tuesday July 26, 2011
Children are reading fewer novels because they spend so much time on mobile phones and Twitter, the chair of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction has warned.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Bodleian Library shows off treasures, from Magna Carta to Shakespeare - The Guardian, Sunday September 25, 2011
Oxford library to ask exhibition visitors which items deserve permanent display - including a First Folio it once threw awayLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Blow for literacy drive as English standard at 14 falls - The Guardian, Thursday September 14, 2006
Children aged 14 are not reading and writing as well as they should and more than four in 10 boys are failing to achieve the standard for the age group, test results showed yesterday. The findings raise concerns that the government's literacy drive has stalled as the key stage three results show teenagers' command of English is slipping, with boys lagging well behind the girls.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - BlackBerry cupcakes and Googling: new study of UK children's language - The Guardian, Monday May 28, 2012
OUP's 31m-word analysis of writing by British children finds influx of US words alongside influence of Potter and PullmanLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Bilingual pupils 'are an asset' - BBC, Monday October 30, 2006
Bilingual children are a valuable resource and more should be done to support the learning and retention of dual languages, a report says. Cilt, the centre for languages, said research showed that language learning enhanced educational attainment. Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Bilingual Asian Children 'Do Better' - BBC, Tuesday November 25, 2003
Children who study the language and culture of their immigrant parents may achieve more and become more involved citizens, according to research.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here