English in the News
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- Word is your oyster, says BBC - Times Educational Supplement, Friday April 2, 2004
A new BBC series which aims to transform spelling in British schools into a glamorous talent contest, has been attacked by English teachers.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - English and maths lessons to stay - BBC, Friday December 12, 2003
The government has rejected claims that pupils could be allowed to drop conventional maths and English lessons at 14.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children hit by 'weak' teaching - BBC, Tuesday December 9, 2003
"Weak" teaching is restricting efforts to improve primary school pupils' reading and writing performances, a report suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading loses magic for young despite Potter
- The Independent, Wednesday December 3, 2003
The number of children who enjoy reading has dropped in the past five years, despite the huge popularity of the Harry Potter books.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 - Obituary: Charles Causley - Times Educational Supplement, Friday November 14, 2003
The poet Charles Causley was once, as he wrote in The TES in 1992, given 10 out of 10 for a sonnet at school. Teachers have rated his professional work just as highly for 40 years.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary School Children to be Given Lessons in Talking - The Independent, Monday November 3, 2003
Lessons in the art of conversation are to be given to five-year-olds, many of whom are starting school unable to talk clearly or pay attention.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Children Are Learning Grammar Again - But Not The Quiz Kind
- The Independent, Saturday November 1, 2003
Grammar is even more "in fashion" than Philip Hensher thinks ("The rules of grammar are back in fashion", 27 November). Thanks to the National Literacy Strategy and the KS3 English strand, children now learn about grammar at school - but not Hensher's kind of grammar.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New tables add to the pressure - The Independent, Thursday October 30, 2003
The Government is right to be worried by the lack of progress of many pupils in their first three years at secondary school. But it is wrong to conclude that the way to put this right is to produce separate league tables from the GCSE and A-level lists.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Reading between the letters - The Guardian, Tuesday October 21, 2003
It's a gfit to any hcak. Who culod psas up the chnace to wrtie copmelte rubisbh in the itnretses of adacimec rseeacrh? Except it's not complete rubbish, because you had very little - if any - trouble reading these first two sentences.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Inside Story: Punctuation - Times Educational Supplement, Friday October 17, 2003
Dash it - isn't it time the Dot Gone generation got the point of punctuation? Lynne Truss pulls out all the stops.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The pleasure principle - The Guardian, Tuesday October 14, 2003
Re: Philip Pullman, Chris Powling and Bernard Ashley and their meetings with Charles ClarkeLink 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 - Opinions sought on English test - BBC, Friday October 3, 2003
Anyone with an interest in the study of English is being asked how 14 year olds should be tested on the subject - after a fuss over the 2003 Shakespeare paper.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - This'll teach 'em - The Guardian, Thursday August 21, 2003
GCSEs have not got easier, they have just changed with the times, says a post-exams student, Jack DeanLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government misses key targets for 11-year-olds - The Guardian, Wednesday August 20, 2003
The government has failed once again to meet its targets for results in primary school tests in England and has a mountain to climb to achieve its goals for future years, official figures published yesterday reveal.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Jumping to the standard conclusions - The Guardian, Wednesday August 20, 2003
Sats results released this week are as usual being interpreted in extravagant ways, in terms of what can possibly be concluded from them in relation to educational standards in our schools.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The cost of testing - The Guardian, Wednesday August 20, 2003
Government spending on testing in schools has risen by 64% since 1997, the Liberal Democrats claimed today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Poverty, not gender, at root of performance
- The Guardian, Wednesday August 20, 2003
The government would improve boys' school performance more by concentrating on the poverty gap instead of the gender gap, Bristol University researchers concluded today.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Government misses Sats targets - The Guardian, Tuesday August 19, 2003
The government today admitted it had failed to reach its target in tests for 11-year olds in English and maths for the second year running but pointed to big improvements in performance by 14-year olds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here