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• Educational bigotry that blighted too many lives - Daily Telegraph, Friday December 2, 2005
  
  There is a depressing theme running through the Government's education policy, and it was sounded again yesterday by the Secretary of State. Ruth Kelly's admission of the need to return to traditional methods of teaching children to read is but her latest U-turn after a failed experiment.... Now, the overwhelming evidence of our under-achieving children simply proves that the old ways had lasted so long because they were the right ones.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Drive on numeracy and literacy fails to improve GCSE results - The Independent, Monday June 27, 2005
  
  The Government's drive to raise literacy and numeracy standards in primary schools has failed to make an impact on GCSE results, ministers have been told.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Doubts about school computer use - BBC, Wednesday November 24, 2004
  
  Students who use computers a lot at school have worse maths and reading performance, research suggests.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• David Almond wins Hans Christian Andersen medal - The Guardian, Tuesday March 23, 2010
  
  British author 'stunned' to take top international children's literature prizeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Dads 'don't read bedtime stories' - BBC, Thursday April 10, 2008
  
  Less than half of fathers regularly read bedtime stories to their children, research has suggested.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Curriculum reforms miss the point - Daily Telegraph, Friday July 13, 2007
  
  It is always attractive when someone dismantles a dictatorship. The National Curriculum was a dictatorship. The Government's announcement that up to 25 per cent more flexibility and choice will be built in to it is, on balance, a change in principle to be welcomed. The same curriculum that works for a school in a leafy suburb is not always suited to a school in a run-down estate in an area of urban blight.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Creative role models inspire pupils - The Independent, Saturday September 30, 2006
  
  A scheme that brings creative writers, artists and environmental designers into schools has had a major impact in improving struggling pupils' standards in the three Rs, say inspectors.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• Alice Oswald wins inaugural Ted Hughes award - The Guardian, Tuesday March 30, 2010
  
  New prize sponsored by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy goes to 'unsettling and unsettled' collection Weeds and Wild FlowersLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here
• 'Uptalk' becoming standard speech - BBC, Tuesday June 21, 2005
  
  'Uptalk' - the pattern of speech used by young people where every sentence ends on a rising note - is fast entering the mainstream, says a New York professor.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here