English in the News

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• School tests breach UN convention, envoy claims - The Guardian, Monday July 14, 2003
  
  The government is breaching the United Nations convention on children's rights by imposing a targets and testing regime in English schools that ignores their needs, a UN representative has warned.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• English pass marks 'lowered' - BBC, Sunday June 22, 2003
  
  Pass marks for reading and writing tests for 11-year-olds have been lowered, it is being reportedLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• TES Write Away - the finalists - Times Educational Supplement, Friday June 20, 2003
  
  Read the work of the 20 finalists in our seventh annual children's writing competitionLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Headteachers unite to fight Sats - The Guardian, Tuesday May 20, 2003
  
  Headteachers joined forces yesterday to step up pressure on the government to scrap national tests for seven-year-olds in England...Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Parents and teachers pressure Clarke over Sats - The Guardian, Monday May 19, 2003
  
  A coalition of primary educators and parents today launched a campaign to pressure the government to drop Sats for seven-year-olds.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Suffer the little children - Sats revolt looms - The Guardian, Wednesday May 14, 2003
  
  The 30 pupils sit silently in rows at their tiny tables, their completed exam scripts in front of them bearing their names - in some cases a barely legible pencil scrawl.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Seven Ages of Pedagogy - Times Educational Supplement, Friday March 21, 2003
  
  Teachers can now enhance their skills at every stage of their careers, with a bit of help from the Bard.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• VRH - Times Educational Supplement, Friday August 2, 2002
  
  Volunteer Reading Help is a literacy charity operating in primary schools in many areas of the country. Its volunteers work with individual children to increase their confidence and reading . . .Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Listen, Miss - The Guardian, Tuesday July 2, 2002
  
  Teachers cannot work any harder, so they must work smarter. A new pilot study suggests they should put aside the lesson plan and tune in to what pupils are sayingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here