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National Curriculum review: what do English teachers think?

March 7, 2011 by Tom Rank   Comments (1)

'The latest of a seemingly endless tide of government curriculum reviews,' is how NATE Director Ian McNeilly describes the National Curriculum review in the latest issue of NATE News. Ian has some trenchant observations on the language used to describe the review (Michael Gove said: 'the National Curriculum is substandard.... We must change course. Our review will examine the best school systems in the world and give us a world-class curriculum...').Experienced teachers will not be surprised to... Read full post

Getting started: logging into the Network

February 23, 2011 by Tom Rank   Comments (0)

Hi! Welcome to NATE Network - it's a community for everyone interested in the teaching of English. Please take a look around.I've now created more detailed help pages, with screenshots, here. I hope they'll be useful!