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How do young children develop agency, literacy, and numeracy
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Literacy
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Agency
Mar 19, 2019
Reading for pleasure in decline
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Reading
Literacy
Mar 13, 2019
There's no excuse for lagging behind on English and maths
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English
Maths
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Literacy
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GCSEs
Mar 11, 2019
Boost adult education spending or UK will lag behind
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Mar 11, 2019
UK ‘will drop’ in world literacy and numeracy table
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Mar 11, 2019
Phonics isn't just for kids: it works with adults too
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Mar 8, 2019
H is for Harry review – hard lessons to be learned
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Disadvantaged pupils
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Mar 7, 2019
Harry's story shows the challenge of illiteracy
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Working class
Mar 7, 2019
Campaigners warn of 'book poverty' as UK celebrates World Book Day
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Mar 7, 2019
Set the children free – show them the joy of reading for reading’s sake | Lola Okolosie
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Mar 6, 2019
Five ways that reading with children helps their education
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Reading
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Mar 5, 2019
Britain’s battle to get to grips with literacy is laid bare in H is for Harry
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Mar 3, 2019
Health visitors to be trained to close the word gap
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Health visitors
Literacy
Communication
Feb 28, 2019
Pupils' favourite books revealed
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Reading
Literacy
Books
Feb 27, 2019
Plans to broaden baseline beyond maths and literacy dropped
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Feb 27, 2019
Only quarter of pupils get recommended reading for pleasure time
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Reading
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Feb 27, 2019
What's so special about literacy?
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Literacy
Attainment
Feb 27, 2019
Preparing for literacy - one school's implementation journey
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Literacy
Feb 27, 2019
Can AI improve the way we test literacy rates?
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Literacy
Feb 22, 2019
Government to send parents ‘text message tips’ to improve literacy of disadvantaged children
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Feb 21, 2019
Scotland: No reliable data on school standards until at least 2020 admits John Swinney
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Feb 21, 2019
Scotland: Five-year hole in literacy and numeracy data revealed
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Scotland
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Feb 20, 2019
375 schools and nurseries in the north of England wanted to take part in new trials
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Feb 20, 2019
Parents should use phone and tablet apps with pre-school children to close literacy gap, education secretary says
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Feb 20, 2019
Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium: 2018 to 2019
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Feb 18, 2019
Scotland: Total bill to date for national tests? £8m
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Finances
Feb 15, 2019
KPMG Foundation report left out negative findings
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Feb 15, 2019
Rising to the challenge of English and Maths
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English
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Feb 11, 2019
Glasses for pupils scheme aims to improve maths and literacy
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Feb 8, 2019
Scotland’s standardised testing regime is a myth
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Feb 6, 2019
Impact of shared book reading on children’s language development
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Feb 5, 2019
Charities pool resources to improve children's literacy
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Feb 4, 2019
Sats: why etymology boosts vocabulary and spelling
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Feb 4, 2019
The less flexible the teaching, the more poorly boys read
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Jan 31, 2019
Scotland: Primary tests - don't put pressure on teachers to raise standards, expert warns
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Jan 31, 2019
Boost for national mission to improve early literacy and language
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Jan 29, 2019
Examining research on the Big Lift preschool initiative
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Jan 22, 2019
Why vocabulary matters in maths
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Jan 21, 2019
Why does vocabulary matter?
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Jan 16, 2019
New award champions books for babies and under-fives
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Jan 16, 2019
The power of disciplinary literacy: How it can support instruction of challenging knowledge
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Teachers
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Jan 14, 2019
Reading to pre-school children boosts their language skills
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Jan 10, 2019
Scotland: Slow readers face school ‘walk of shame’ to sit with younger pupils
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Jan 10, 2019
Reading with children before they start school puts them eight months ahead of peers, study shows
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Jan 9, 2019
Reading with pre-school children boosts language skills by eight months
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Jan 9, 2019
Scottish government 'brazenly twisted' top academic’s work’
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Jan 9, 2019
The importance of poetry and reading between the lines | Letters
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Dec 14, 2018
How can primaries offer a broad curriculum and still get literacy right?
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Ofsted
Dec 13, 2018
Early phonics achievers three times more likely to ace KS2 reading test
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SATs
Dec 13, 2018
Nearly third of phonics 'failures' go on to reading success
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Dec 13, 2018
Sturgeon accused of failing Scottish children: Shocking failure of SNP primary curriculum
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Dec 12, 2018
Scotland: Children from deprived areas struggling to meet literacy and numeracy targets
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Dec 12, 2018
Literacy scheme ‘hides decline in teacher numbers’ in Scotland
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Scotland
Dec 12, 2018
Scotland: Three in every ten pupils not at required literacy level
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Dec 11, 2018
Scotland: Treat national test results ‘with caution’
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Dec 11, 2018
Scotland: Poorest pupils 'being failed badly’
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Dec 11, 2018
Scotland: Poor pupils lagging behind richer classmates in literacy and numeracy
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Dec 11, 2018
Early-intervention literacy programme for struggling children closes GCSE attainment gap
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Dec 5, 2018
Why incentivising reading does not work
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Nov 29, 2018
UKEdMag: Every school needs a school library
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Nov 29, 2018
A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Young children and multimodal learning with tablets
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Nov 28, 2018
Story-telling helps boys close ‘literacy gap’ with girls
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Nov 27, 2018
We are facing a literacy and numeracy crisis – we need dedicated resource to tackle it
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Nov 26, 2018
Storytelling kit helps close gender literacy gap
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Nov 21, 2018
Almost half a million books gifted to primary 1 to 3 pupils for Book Week Scotland
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Nov 20, 2018
Scotland: Half a million books gifted to primary pupils
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Nov 20, 2018
White British five-year-olds bottom of class in reading
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Reading
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Ethnic groups
Nov 19, 2018
Growth in demand for skills in the British economy is slowing, survey shows
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Nov 15, 2018
Parents' reading project aims to boost three-year-olds' language
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Nov 15, 2018
Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund
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Nov 15, 2018
Scotland: New inquiry into controversial national tests
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Nov 15, 2018
Improving the home learning environment
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Nov 14, 2018
Texts to prompt poorer parents to teach children words
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Scouts
Nov 14, 2018
Multi-million investment to support children's early communication skills
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Nov 14, 2018
Can 20 minutes a day of story activities help parents boost their children’s language skills?
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Nov 13, 2018
EEF partners with SHINE to improve the home learning environment
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Nov 13, 2018
Jeff Kinney: ‘Let children read anything; I’ll never say no to a book’
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Oct 30, 2018
Phonics ‘first and fast’… but at what cost?
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Oct 29, 2018
Reading Planet to save UK schools money with new match funding initiative
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Oct 29, 2018
Dear Damian Hinds, What’s so difficult about giving every child a library ticket? | Michael Rosen
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Oct 23, 2018
Children's authors welcome Ofsted's move to lighten stress on testing
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Ofsted
Oct 19, 2018
12 tips to engage reluctant readers
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Reading
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Teachers
Teaching
Oct 18, 2018
Fact or fiction? Novels come top for reading skills
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Reading
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Oct 17, 2018
Reading novels really does improve teenagers' literacy, major UCL study finds
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Oct 17, 2018
Gauging EAL pupils’ English ability ‘vital’
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Oct 11, 2018
Research provides evidence on why the Department for Education should reintroduce the Proficiency in English Scale
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Oct 11, 2018
Don’t bottle out during Maths Workout Week
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Numeracy
Oct 8, 2018
Grab a free annual license to the Night Zookeeper school literacy programme
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Literacy
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English
Creativity
Oct 4, 2018
How to support young people with literacy difficulties
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Literacy
Dyslexia
Oct 3, 2018
Breaking the cycle of illiteracy
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Literacy
Oct 3, 2018
Mental health hit as students’ literacy engagement declines
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Mental health
Literacy
Oct 3, 2018
Personalisation in children’s reading: what do the literacy experts think?
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Reading
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Books
Oct 2, 2018
100 book recommendations from BookTrust to get children reading
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Oct 1, 2018
The big Picture - Look and learn
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BookTrust
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Primary
Reading
Literacy
Oct 1, 2018
Damian Hinds: Children’s literacy and narrowing the early years gap should be a national mission
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Early years
Development
Communication
Sep 30, 2018
Help children step into a world of books
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Books
Sep 28, 2018
More children on track to be fluent readers in primary school
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Primary
Reading
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Phonics
Sep 27, 2018
Reading and writing 'boost pupils’ mental health'
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Writing
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Mental health
Sep 26, 2018
Children who do not read and write in free time likely to have worse mental health
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Reading
Writing
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Sep 26, 2018
Get support with teaching phonics and early reading
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Phonics
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Sep 21, 2018
American girls read and write better than boys
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USA
Reading
Writing
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Gender gap
Sep 21, 2018
Why do some children struggle with reading?
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Reading
Literacy
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Sep 20, 2018
Fake news not fooling kids who read, says BookTrust and leading developmental psychologist
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Literacy
Sep 19, 2018
Graduates held back by lack of basic literacy and numeracy despite huge tuition fees, report says
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Sep 12, 2018
Graduates ‘lack basic maths and literacy skills’
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Sep 12, 2018
One in four graduates are stuck in low-skill jobs because their maths and English levels are so low, report finds
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Sep 11, 2018
Kate Winslet warns of 'shame' of illiteracy
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Sep 7, 2018
Controversial school tests 'are not compulsory'
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Primary assessment
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Numeracy
Sep 5, 2018
The Big Picture - It’s Dahlicious!
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Sep 3, 2018
Are digital skills as vital as literacy and numeracy skills?
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Aug 29, 2018
Education Secretary's visit to promote English as global export
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Colleges
Aug 28, 2018
Connecting the dots: painting, thesis and writing
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Aug 28, 2018
Let the young answer back to improve language skills
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Aug 14, 2018
Scotland: John Swinney in 'complete denial' over primary one tests after teachers and parents complain
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Aug 13, 2018
P1 testing rollout was a mess, say one-third of parents
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Aug 13, 2018
Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies
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Aug 8, 2018
BookTrust: Why reading stories will help prepare toddlers and parents starting school journey this September
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Aug 8, 2018
Schools need to boost staff and governors’ data literacy, research finds
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Aug 8, 2018
Targeted Reading Intervention and struggling readers
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Aug 7, 2018
Review of Education Editors’ Choice Award 2018
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Aug 7, 2018
Action, not words, will show how serious the government is to tackling the early years gap | Luciana Berger & Lucy Powell
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Aug 7, 2018
Schools can't do it alone, and neither can parents
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Literacy
Jul 31, 2018
Bid to boost childhood literacy levels
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Literacy
Damian Hinds
Jul 31, 2018
Government commits to halving the early years literacy gap
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Literacy
Damian Hinds
Social mobility
Jul 31, 2018
Paying parents to read to their children boosts literacy skills
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Jul 24, 2018
How to start a grassroots teaching movement
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Online learning
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Jul 20, 2018
Book reviews: Make the school holidays special with these top reads
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School holidays
Jul 20, 2018
Secondary academies testing primary pupils on summer visiting days
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Jul 17, 2018
This much I know about an inept attempt to improve students literacy skills
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SENCO
Jul 13, 2018
More than 770,000 British children don't own a single physical book, says Literacy Trust
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Jul 11, 2018
Inspire them… to read all summer
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Jul 9, 2018
Parents should put down phones and speak to children to boost vocabulary, author Philip Pullman has urged
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Jul 6, 2018
Government´s exams `fetish´ is ruining children´s lives - Philip Pullman
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Jul 6, 2018
Children and Families Minister addresses ADCS conference
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Nadhim Zahawi
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Jul 5, 2018
Education Secretary makes inaugural speech to children's services sector
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Damian Hinds
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Jul 5, 2018
Basic numeracy and literacy and IT top employers wish lists
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Jul 4, 2018
ETF publishes report on current practice in using a system of phonics with Post-16 learners
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Jun 29, 2018
A story about Harry Kane and Russian history is inspiring schoolkids to read
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Jun 28, 2018
Monica Parle: 'Writing is undervalued and under-invested in'
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Jun 27, 2018
New guidance on preparing for literacy
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Literacy
Jun 26, 2018
The impact of wearing glasses on early literacy
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Literacy
Visual impairment
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Jun 26, 2018
Scotland: Davidson accuses SNP of rigging stats to con parents
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Jun 22, 2018
Scotland: Talking children up and down
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Jun 22, 2018
Ruth Davidson: SNP are ‘rigging education stats’
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Jun 21, 2018
Stop sanitising children’s books, author Ann Pilling urges publishers
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Jun 21, 2018
Free resources aim to help children spot fake news
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Jun 20, 2018
Scottish library closures soar as council cuts bite
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Jun 20, 2018
These dark children's stories provide valuable life lessons that kids need more than ever
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Jun 20, 2018
Writing and iPads in the early years classroom
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Jun 19, 2018
Author Geraldine McCaughrean attacks simplistic children’s books
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Jun 19, 2018
Call for children's eye tests to improve literacy
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Jun 15, 2018
Scotland: Tests that leave pupils in tears ‘must be scrapped’
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Jun 15, 2018
Give young children eye tests to improve their literacy, as one in ten may have undiagnosed conditions
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Jun 14, 2018
Sweating the small stuff
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Jun 14, 2018
Daily roundup 13 June: Fake news, social impact, and courtroom evidence
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Jun 13, 2018
Pupils 'lack literacy skills to spot fake news'
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Jun 13, 2018
Fake news harms children's self-esteem and trust, say MPs
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Jun 13, 2018
Teachers need resources to help pupils identify ‘fake news’
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Jun 13, 2018
Fake news leaves almost all children fooled
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Jun 13, 2018
Raising literacy levels of targeted school pupils
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Jun 12, 2018
Beyond the ‘Reading Wars’: How the science of reading can improve literacy
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Jun 12, 2018
Newcastle pyjama rave aims to get more kids reading
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Jun 11, 2018
Highlighting Dundee’s part in creation of Frankenstein
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Jun 6, 2018
Children to meet leading authors at book jamboree
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Jun 4, 2018
Evaluation of computer game to teach pupils to read
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May 29, 2018
Leader comment: Testing P1 pupils must be stopped if it is ‘abuse’
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May 24, 2018
Boys continue to lag behind in reading
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May 23, 2018
DfE ditches year 7 ‘catch-up training’ fund before it even opens
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May 21, 2018
'Reading is like a chocolate-covered strawberry'
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May 21, 2018
‘TV subtitles boost literacy’ - Greening
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May 18, 2018
Scotland: Curriculum change needs a different school of thought
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May 18, 2018
Family literacy sessions could boost learning
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May 15, 2018
Jojo Moyes steps in to save Quick Reads after literacy project loses funding
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May 10, 2018
‘SNP obsession’: Nicola Sturgeon undermined over more testing in schools
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May 8, 2018
Life chances inquiry launched
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May 4, 2018
Family learning courses struggle to recruit parents
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May 4, 2018
Getting parents into school is key to literacy success, study finds
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May 4, 2018
New report finds offering parents ‘family learning’ sessions might improve literacy
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Literacy
May 4, 2018
EEF’s family literacy test falls apart
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EEF
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May 4, 2018
The internet is a great source of knowledge for pupils – but only if they can read it'
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May 3, 2018
David Gonski, I'd give you a B+ on your report card | Peter Hutton
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May 2, 2018
Can new Braille technology boost literacy levels?
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Writing
May 2, 2018
40 children’s books for struggling and reluctant readers
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Primary
May 1, 2018
How to help pupils 'catch' new vocabulary and strengthen their ability to learn
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Communication
Apr 30, 2018
Council efforts to boost young children's literacy to be peer reviewed
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Apr 30, 2018
£5m fund to support early years home learning
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Apr 30, 2018
Multi-million fund to boost children's early language skills
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Communication
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Apr 30, 2018
£13.5 million schemes to help close disadvantaged children’s ‘word gap’
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Language
Communication
Apr 30, 2018
Curiosity is key to early childhood success in maths and reading
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English
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Numeracy
Apr 26, 2018
Leading literacy in schools
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David Didau
Literacy
Apr 25, 2018
Children spend 100 million minutes reading in a month
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Apr 25, 2018
Four in 10 students in year 7 are being held back by limited vocabulary
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Reading
Apr 25, 2018
The Quick Q&A: How to help pupils close the vocabulary gap
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Apr 23, 2018
Be prepared: Scouts offer to help pupils through summer holidays
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Apr 23, 2018
Summer reading programs
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Apr 22, 2018
Testing P1 pupils causes “stress and anxiety”
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Apr 20, 2018
Scrap 'cruel' testing of five-year-olds, say Scottish campaigners
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Apr 20, 2018
Daily roundup 19 April: Exploitation, breastfeeding, and vocabulary
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Apr 19, 2018
Limited vocabulary impact on educational outcomes
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Apr 19, 2018
Children’s grades at risk because they have narrow vocabulary, finds report
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Apr 19, 2018
More children are struggling with vocabulary, teachers say
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Apr 19, 2018
Teachers in UK report growing 'vocabulary deficiency'
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Apr 19, 2018
Narrow vocabulary 'hits pupils' grades'
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Apr 19, 2018
Encouraging reading
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Apr 18, 2018
Emoji 'ruining people's grasp of English' because young rely on them to communicate
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Apr 17, 2018
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Apr 11, 2018
Why do some children read more?
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Apr 11, 2018
Developing writing. Exploring the process from YR to Y6.
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Apr 8, 2018
4 online tools to engage teachers in collaboration and information literacy
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Apr 7, 2018
Concerns raised over quality of probationer teachers
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Apr 6, 2018
Creative ideas for teaching children to read and write – in pictures
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Apr 5, 2018
Putting pen to paper: the schools nurturing a love of the written word
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Apr 5, 2018
Focus on: literacy
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Apr 4, 2018
Teachers prepare to strike in protest at 'immoral' exams for four-year-olds
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Apr 3, 2018
Infant pupils 'swiping left' when they pick up books
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Apr 2, 2018
Ofqual investigation concludes troubled KS2 Sats were 'inconsistent'
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Mar 29, 2018
The tide is turning, and our schools are improving
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Mar 26, 2018
Secret Teacher: we're setting dyslexic children up to feel like failures
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Mar 24, 2018
The bill for Scotland's national tests is set to hit £4.6m
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Mar 23, 2018
Illiteracy costs UK £36 billion a year
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Mar 23, 2018
Meta-analysis of the US Ready to Learn initiative involving 24,000 children indicates positive effects on children's literacy
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Mar 20, 2018
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Mar 14, 2018
A lasting impact - 6 lessons from the evaluation of ABRA
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Mar 9, 2018
The Tes podcast: Teacher stress, union conferences and reading with pupils
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Mar 9, 2018
BBC launches new education strategy to encourage UK social mobility
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Mar 8, 2018
BBC sets itself target to boost literacy skills of a million under-fives
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Language is the golden route to educational success
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Mar 7, 2018
Teaching primary pupils to write is a creative act, says Costa prize-winning teacher
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Shakespeare can boost children’s confidence
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Scottish school named UK Literacy School of the Year
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Mar 7, 2018
Best Evidence in Brief: Issue #157 - 6 March 2018
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National literacy award for primary where most teachers study children's literature at MA-level
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Mar 6, 2018
World Book Day: Every teacher is an English teacher
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Mar 5, 2018
Judith Kerr: ‘Grammar is like drawing – if you want to do it, you want to get it right’
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Mar 3, 2018
Cameron Wyllie: Why we must radically rethink education
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Mar 1, 2018
Schools cancel costumes amid growing backlash against World Book Day
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Mar 1, 2018
Harassed parents lose plot over world book day costumes
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Mar 1, 2018
Don’t knock kids for rereading books. Encourage them to read, full stop | Andrew McCallum
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Feb 23, 2018
Just half of three- and four-year-olds are read to every day
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Feb 23, 2018
Daily roundup 22 February: Reading, child protection, and haircuts
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The most popular books in Wales' schools ahead of World Book Day
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Feb 22, 2018
Scots secondary school pupils choosing same novels as under-12s
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Feb 22, 2018
Literacy fears as secondary pupils ‘read the same books’ as primary children
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Feb 22, 2018
Leader comment: Don’t be a literary wimp
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Feb 22, 2018
Set aside 15 minutes of dedicated reading time, secondary schools told
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Feb 22, 2018
Progress in reading stalls at secondary school. It should be a priority
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Feb 22, 2018
GCSE pupils are spurning challenging books and reading novels aimed at 13-year-olds
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Feb 22, 2018
Harry Potter remains pupils' favourite
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Feb 22, 2018
Many GCSE pupils have reading level of a 13-year-old
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Your books turn teens into twits, David Walliams is told
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Feb 22, 2018
‘Deeply worrying’ Pupils aged 16 have reading age of only 13, experts warn
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Feb 22, 2018
Teenagers aren’t reading enough tough books – here’s why they should worry
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Feb 22, 2018
Only half of pre-school children being read to daily, UK study finds
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Feb 21, 2018
Research round-up 16 February 2018
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Feb 16, 2018
Literacy and life expectancy - EEF response to new report
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Is literacy the key to a child’s life expectancy?
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Feb 16, 2018
Children in areas with poor literacy 'have much shorter lives'
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Feb 16, 2018
Resurgent poetry makes longlist for prestigious children's books award
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Feb 15, 2018
There must be easier fads to follow than teaching Mandarin | Emma Brockes
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Raising literacy levels in overlooked school year groups
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Feb 8, 2018
Social Mobility: Ending the opportunity gap
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Feb 5, 2018
Government urged to give adults lacking functional skills access to training
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Feb 5, 2018
Let's not sacrifice play-based learning for a more structured reception experience
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Feb 5, 2018
Read all about it! Literacy Works week is go
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Bold Beginnings: getting the message over
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Feb 5, 2018
British aid gives children in the poorest countries the skills they need to thrive
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Feb 1, 2018
IOE celebrates success of young readers in London
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Jan 31, 2018
Research into adult phonics launched as part of Functional Skills Reform
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Jan 31, 2018
What's wrong with Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report?
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Jan 30, 2018
Ofsted forgets our four-year-olds are not GCSE apprentices | Michael Rosen
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Jan 30, 2018
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (January 2018)
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Jan 29, 2018
Experts warn of a literacy crisis among Aussie kids
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Jan 28, 2018
The reception year isn’t all about learning to read
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Jan 27, 2018
Schools told to throw open their doors to parents
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Jan 26, 2018
Ofsted's Gill Jones begins drive to clarify Bold Beginnings report
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Jan 23, 2018
Long read: What's so bad about Comic Sans, anyway?
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Jan 21, 2018
Pupil literacy skills improved by ‘reading for pleasure’ scheme
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Jan 20, 2018
Schleicher: Trillions could be added to economy if all pupils had 'basic' reading and writing skills
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Jan 19, 2018
Damian Hinds: Children are being let down by depth and breadth of education
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Jan 19, 2018
Early years teachers call on Ofsted to publish Bold Beginnings clarification
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Jan 18, 2018
Take Time to Talk, Listen and Play
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Jan 18, 2018
Outrage over each new education policy does nothing but harm | Richard Russell
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Jan 18, 2018
Early years anger over Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report 'impossible to reconcile'
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Jan 17, 2018
Bold Beginnings: how NOT to write an Ofsted report
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Jan 17, 2018
Learning through play is plane easy | Letters
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Jan 16, 2018
Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn
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Jan 16, 2018
Ofsted's Bold Beginnings report is 'flawed' and should be scrapped, says open letter
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Jan 16, 2018
Ofsted's call for more teaching in reception year prompts backlash
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Jan 16, 2018
Proposed tests for reception children ‘verging on the immoral’
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Jan 16, 2018
Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report on reception class curriculum is flawed
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Getting students to write journals leaves them glowing with pride
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Jan 13, 2018
Primary schools are being asked to trial lessons in identifying ‘fake news’
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Jan 12, 2018
BookTrust names free books for under-fives in 2018
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Jan 11, 2018
Unionlearn supports mid-life skills with The Rainbow Years European project
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Jan 9, 2018
Scottish Conservatives call for SNP to 'get a grip' on curriculum
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Jan 9, 2018
Daily roundup 8 January: Literacy, acid, and obesity
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Jan 8, 2018
Children building reading confidence by getting dogs to listen
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Jan 8, 2018
Boost for school standards with primary literacy drive
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Jan 6, 2018
12 books to get your students into non-fiction
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Jan 6, 2018
Justine Greening unveils new drive to improve child literacy in England
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Jan 6, 2018
Plans to ensure `every child will get the best literacy teaching´ revealed
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Jan 6, 2018
Government plans 'English hubs' to boost child literacy
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Jan 6, 2018
Justine Greening announces £26m for English hubs and £7.7m curriculum fund
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Jan 6, 2018
“Global competence” to be tested by OECD
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Jan 5, 2018
Many new primary teachers lack confidence in teaching 3Rs
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Jan 5, 2018
Dr Ann Clark: Teach kids how to express themselves and it could keep them out of trouble
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Jan 3, 2018
Liberia's big school experiment
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Jan 3, 2018
Starting early - what is the EEF doing to examine disadvantage before year 1?
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Dec 19, 2017
The Tories are savaging libraries – and closing the book on social mobility | John Harris
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Dec 15, 2017
'Youthquake' named 2017 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries
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Dec 15, 2017
Churning out graduates won’t make us richer
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Dec 15, 2017
Focus on raising aspirations and attainment in all parts of the country is welcome
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Dec 14, 2017
How can research truly inform practice? It takes a lot more than just providing information
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Poor primary school pupils increasingly left behind by peers
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Dec 14, 2017
KS2 performance tables 2017: The reason schools ended up below the floor standard this year
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Dec 14, 2017
Government social mobility plan prioritises early language
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More 11-year-olds meeting Government targets in three key tests
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Dec 14, 2017
Children finish their education unable to read or write in English, Ofsted chief warns
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Dec 14, 2017
Improving social mobility through education
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Dec 14, 2017
Greening unveils four 'ambitions' to help improve social mobility
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Dec 14, 2017
Test reliability, and why it matters for primary school performance tables
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Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted annual report: EYFS does not prepare children for Year 1
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Dec 13, 2017
Almost a third of Scottish 12-year-old pupils fail to hit writing benchmark
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Dec 13, 2017
Scotland: A third of pupils falling behind at primary school, say teachers
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Dec 13, 2017
Grammar: Over-simplifications by teachers 'hinder' pupils
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Dec 11, 2017
Research round-up 8 December 2017
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Dec 11, 2017
Statistics on pupils’ skills ‘cannot be relied upon’
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Dec 11, 2017
Nick Gibb is wrong: PIRLS data does not support synthetic phonics
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Dec 8, 2017
What makes a good reader? International findings from PIRLS 2016
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Dec 7, 2017
Hallelujah! Reading standards are up. It shows what can be achieved when liberal dogma is defeated | Stephen Glover
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Dec 7, 2017
Daily roundup 6 December: Post-traumatic stress, books, and temporary accommodation
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Dec 6, 2017
How can we get more adults to learn?
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Dec 6, 2017
USA: Lawyers sue California because too many children can't read
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Dec 6, 2017
More than 770,000 UK children 'don't have any books of their own'
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Dec 6, 2017
Best reading in schools for a generation
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Dec 6, 2017
Ireland: Irish children have best reading skills in EU
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Dec 6, 2017
Pupils in England climb global rankings in reading and literacy
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Dec 5, 2017
Nick Gibb: reading is the key to unlocking human potential
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PIRLS 2016: reading literacy performance in England
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PIRLS 2016 results and the importance of teaching
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Dec 5, 2017
Primary schools in Northern Ireland continue to rank among the best in the world in reading
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Dec 5, 2017
NFER comment on results of PIRLS 2016
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10 things about top 10 global school rankings
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England joint eighth in global reading study
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Dec 5, 2017
Reading results should 'ring in the ears of opponents of phonics', says Gibb
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Dec 5, 2017
Northern Ireland and England schools in global top 10 for reading
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Dec 5, 2017
Northern Ireland and England schools in reading top ten
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PIRLS 2016: Well-stocked libraries don't improve reading scores
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Dec 5, 2017
PIRLS 2016: England rises up the ranks in international reading measure
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English pupils improve results in international reading exams
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Dec 5, 2017
Pirls rankings: England's primary pupils rise to joint 8th in world at reading
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Dec 5, 2017
At a glance: How Pirls ranks 10-year-olds around the world in reading
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Dec 5, 2017
Focus on phonics sees reading standards rise to the best in a generation as schools minister hails controversial education reforms
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Dec 5, 2017
Phonics revolution: Reading standards in England are best in a generation, new international test results show
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Dec 4, 2017
Children’s reading on screen: in the beginning was the word, not a hotspot
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Dec 4, 2017
‘Great strategy, please fund it properly’, says NAHT
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Dec 4, 2017
Independent evaluation of the Literacy Octopus suggests more effective ways for research evidence to impact on classroom practice and pupil outcomes
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Dec 1, 2017
What will the PIRLS results tell us about reading in England and Northern Ireland?
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Dec 1, 2017
EEF: Teacher research engagement strategies are ineffective
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Dec 1, 2017
Teach Reception children how to grip a pencil, says Ofsted
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Nov 30, 2017
Reception teachers are failing a third of five-year-olds, major Ofsted report finds
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Nov 30, 2017
Can grammar teaching improve pupils’ writing?
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Nov 29, 2017
Teaching grammar does not improve children's writing ability, research finds
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Nov 28, 2017
Rona Tutt's SEND summary (November 2017)
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Nov 27, 2017
New research shows that drama improves children’s writing and motivation to write
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Nov 27, 2017
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016
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Nov 24, 2017
Leading authors pen a plea to save school libraries
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Nov 24, 2017
Top children’s authors demand Justine Greening step in to save school libraries
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Nov 23, 2017
Neil Gaiman leads authors demanding action to halt decline of school libraries
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Nov 23, 2017
Reading charity and Lego join forces to encourage children's creativity
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Nov 23, 2017
Pullman's plea to save school libraries
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Nov 23, 2017
Vocabulary: too big to ‘teach’?
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Nov 22, 2017
Accountability: Low-level gaming is ‘rife’ and teaching to the test ‘endemic’
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Nov 22, 2017
Reading extends teenagers' vocabulary, whatever their background
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Nov 22, 2017
Boosting skills would drive UK growth and productivity
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Nov 22, 2017
Phonics 'fundamentalism' is based on flawed science, says education expert
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Nov 22, 2017
Why I recommend self-report to audit teachers’ grammatical knowledge
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Nov 21, 2017
DfE guidance: literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies
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Nov 20, 2017
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Nov 20, 2017
How can we support teachers’ standards of literacy?
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Nov 18, 2017
Reflections on the Annual English, Maths and ESOL Conference
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Nov 16, 2017
'Clear as mud': Teachers react to KS2 writing assessment changes
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Nov 15, 2017
Supporting transitions from ESOL to apprenticeships
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Nov 15, 2017
Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies
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Nov 14, 2017
BookTrust names great books for birth to five-year-olds
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Nov 14, 2017
Tes talks to… Dr Jessie Ricketts
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Nov 3, 2017
Why fairy tales are horror stories we need to be more wary of in schools
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Oct 31, 2017
Best Evidence in Brief: a review of the evidence on early language development
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Oct 31, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 20 October 2017
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Oct 20, 2017
Children with reading difficulties may have undiagnosed hearing problems
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Oct 17, 2017
Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium: guide for schools
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Oct 17, 2017
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Oct 17, 2017
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Oct 17, 2017
Fake news: improved critical literacy skills are key to telling fact from fiction
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Oct 17, 2017
Daily singing lessons for primary pupils set to be evaluated
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Oct 17, 2017
May vows to tackle disparities affecting children's life chances
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Oct 10, 2017
How can digital library systems help teachers support children’s reading for pleasure?
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Oct 9, 2017
Social-media 'evangelist' named school librarian of the year
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Oct 9, 2017
Scotland recruitment crisis: Cash offer to workers to become teachers
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Oct 9, 2017
Literacy strongest predictor of science grades
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Sep 22, 2017
‘Superteacher’ scheme to help solve school recruitment crisis
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Sep 21, 2017
Swinney misses ‘golden opportunity’ to reform education crisis in Scotland
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Sep 20, 2017
BookTrust: Parents side-line storytime for social media
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Sep 19, 2017
Parents choose 'screen time' over reading to their child
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Sep 19, 2017
Union backs teacher’s ‘utterly failing’ letter to Nicola Sturgeon
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Sep 18, 2017
Scottish teacher writes furious open letter to Nicola Sturgeon
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Sep 18, 2017
September 2017 school leadership podcast
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Sep 14, 2017
Educational inequality still ‘deeply entrenched’ despite marginal progress
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Sep 13, 2017
Children need teachers´ help to identify fake news - report
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Sep 13, 2017
Kenya: What's it like to start reading at 60?
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Sep 13, 2017
Pupils 'lack critical literacy skills to identify fake news'
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Sep 13, 2017
One in five parents 'do not spend any time reading with their children'
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Sep 13, 2017
DfE consults on improving Functional Skills qualifications
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Sep 12, 2017
Toxic schools and how to avoid running them
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Sep 10, 2017
Idris Elba partners with a formerly illiterate mother to tackle adult illiteracy with 're-written' story
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Sep 8, 2017
Pupils' 'ear for writing' as important as grammar, says expert
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Sep 6, 2017
This is why private schools in Wales chose to put pupils through England's GCSEs
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Sep 5, 2017
'Heard it all before' Sturgeon savaged on schools after legislative plan pledges
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Sep 5, 2017
This year's Sats spelling test was harder than in 2016, figures suggest
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Sep 4, 2017
What’s happening to reading under the new Key Stage 2 curriculum and assessment regime?
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Aug 31, 2017
Popular reading challenge to be tried out in early secondary years
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Aug 31, 2017
Sats results: KS2 writing assessments 'more consistent than last year'
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Aug 31, 2017
Sats: 2017 primary progress floor standards revealed
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Aug 31, 2017
Sats results: Variation between local authorities shrinks – but the gap is still 'considerable'
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Aug 31, 2017
Nearly a quarter of pupils failed controversial Sats semi-colon question
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Aug 30, 2017
When sound, vision and motor skills do not come together literacy is like an impossible to grasp hologram
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Aug 28, 2017
New English GCSE 'may be putting pupils off reading'
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Aug 24, 2017
Reading scheme keeps pupils on the right page
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Aug 22, 2017
This much I know about…writing, language and catching a sea trout
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Aug 21, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon’s reading challenge expanded to more schools
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Aug 21, 2017
Reading challenge expanded to secondary school pupils
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Aug 21, 2017
Get ready for #MathsWorkout Week
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Aug 15, 2017
Ten books every teacher should read
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Aug 15, 2017
Left-handed children 'penalised' by lack of support at school
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Aug 14, 2017
The teacher's book in which characters literally leap off the page
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Aug 9, 2017
Sats: Publishing markers' guidance 'risks adding to teacher stress'
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Aug 9, 2017
What's your favourite children's book? Twitter teachers debate
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Aug 1, 2017
Scottish Government failed to improve education, say critics
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Jul 27, 2017
Dedicated reading time needs to be at the heart of the school day
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Jul 26, 2017
Dear Justine Greening: your primary school reading reforms aren’t making the grade | Michael Rosen
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Jul 25, 2017
Scotland: Scottish pupils struggling on reading tests
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Jul 25, 2017
Scotland: SNP school shame: Scottish pupils lagging behind in improvements in reading
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Jul 24, 2017
Leader comment: Follow through needed on school reforms
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Jul 24, 2017
Reading standards in Scotland falling behind UK, study warns
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Jul 24, 2017
England lags behind Northern Ireland on pupil literacy improvement, study shows
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Jul 24, 2017
Three brilliant short stories written by Welsh school kids that show the wonder of imagination
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Jul 20, 2017
Sats: Prepare for 'secure-fit' writing assessments to be scrapped soon, heads told
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Jul 20, 2017
Sats: Writing assessment changes need time 'to bed in', says Greening
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Jul 20, 2017
Survey: What books will you be reading this summer?
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Jul 19, 2017
Children do better if their family attends parents’ evenings
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Jul 18, 2017
Education has ‘done nothing’ to improve social mobility
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Jul 16, 2017
Conscious and unconscious minds: Implications for teaching and learning literacy
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Jul 15, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 14 July 2017
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Jul 14, 2017
The 6 key policy recommendations from the Social Market Foundation’s inequality study
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Jul 13, 2017
IOE contributes to OECD study on children’s early development
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Jul 11, 2017
#Satsshambles: Heads demand publication of 'secret' marking guidance
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Jul 11, 2017
Gillian Anderson receives Honorary Fellowship for supporting IOE reading campaign
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Jul 10, 2017
Scotland: Curriculum for Excellence fears add to surge in home schooling
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Jul 10, 2017
Foster carers encouraged to inspire love of books
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Jul 7, 2017
Teachers outraged as pupils marked down for correct answer in SPaG test
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Jul 7, 2017
NFER appointed to carry out new OECD international early learning and child well-being study
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Jul 6, 2017
DfE confirms participation in ‘baby PISA’ pilot
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Jul 6, 2017
Majority of teachers think Sats are unfair, snap poll finds
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Jul 6, 2017
‘Don’t be a jerk, even if you’re a chicken’: the cookbook written by kids
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Jul 5, 2017
Four in ten pupils fail to meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths tests at the end of primary school
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Jul 4, 2017
Primary school tests show schools rising to the challenge
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Jul 4, 2017
SATs tests reveal reading, writing and maths standard unmet by two in five primary pupils
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Jul 4, 2017
Sats: 61 per cent of pupils reach expected standard in three Rs
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Jul 4, 2017
Sats: Threshold scores revealed amid mixed reaction from heads
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Jul 4, 2017
Sats: Today's results should be taken 'with a pinch of salt', heads warn
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Jul 4, 2017
Picture books with too many illustrations 'hinder children's vocabulary learning'
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Jul 3, 2017
Time to fight back against the grammar reductionists
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Jul 1, 2017
Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in June 2017
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Jun 30, 2017
‘Data monster’ warning over new standardised school testing plan
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Jun 30, 2017
Trump – as a name, verb or adjective – is word of the year
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Jun 28, 2017
Teacher's tribute leads Philip Pullman to name character after pupil Grenfell fire victim
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Jun 26, 2017
Phonics test pass mark published today
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Jun 26, 2017
Is Harry Potter the boy who saved reading?
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Jun 26, 2017
Campaign group calls for overhaul of reading in the early years foundation stage
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Jun 23, 2017
Why drag queens want to read to primary pupils
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Jun 23, 2017
Daily roundup 21 June: Writing, 'geeks', and child sexual exploitation
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Jun 21, 2017
Call to boost children's writing for pleasure
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Jun 21, 2017
How a smack of jellyfish helped win a £5,000 book prize
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Jun 20, 2017
Double US win in prestigious Carnegie and Kate Greenaway book awards
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Jun 19, 2017
Working on networking
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Jun 19, 2017
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway children's book award winners about to be revealed (video)
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Jun 19, 2017
Brian Monteith: Our children paying price for SNP failures
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Jun 19, 2017
Take note of vital contribution music, art and drama make to society
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Jun 17, 2017
Best-selling author Andy McNab appointed CBE for literacy work
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Jun 16, 2017
Schools wanted to take part in marking without grading trial
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Jun 16, 2017
Headteachers win more powers in Scottish schools shake-up
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Jun 15, 2017
Headteachers to be handed sweeping powers under new plans
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Jun 15, 2017
‘Trump’ announced as children’s word of the year
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Jun 15, 2017
'Trump' is children's word of the year, analysis shows
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Jun 15, 2017
Boys’ love of reading disappears dramatically as they become teens
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Jun 14, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon joins pupils for Reading Challenge
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Jun 14, 2017
Scottish schools facing further round of government reforms
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Jun 14, 2017
Scottish teachers at ‘breaking point’ over workload hike
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Jun 13, 2017
Phonics check risks distorting learning, says NAHT
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Jun 13, 2017
How schools can get excellence back in the curriculum
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Jun 13, 2017
Heriot’s head attacks Scottish curriculum for failure
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Jun 13, 2017
Sleep study suggests literacy lessons should be left until after lunch
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Jun 13, 2017
Barbara Taylor Bradford searches for next generation of literary bestsellers
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Jun 12, 2017
Schools don’t prepare children for life. Here’s the education they really need | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Jun 12, 2017
Lauren Child: Gaze out of the window more and worry about exams less
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Jun 8, 2017
Lauren Child named as new children's laureate
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Jun 7, 2017
Charlie and Lola creator Lauren Child named children's laureate
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Jun 7, 2017
Picture book author Lauren Child is new children’s laureate
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Jun 7, 2017
Global: Knowledge and education should be unbounded and it’s the world’s citizens’ responsibility to ensure this
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Jun 6, 2017
Sats: Jump in marks needed for seven-year-olds to reach expected standard in reading
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Jun 5, 2017
Theresa May to force majority Muslim schools to mix with others to stop segregation
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Jun 5, 2017
Voters blame SNP for education crisis in Scottish schools, exclusive new poll reveals
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Jun 4, 2017
Daily roundup 2 June: Sleeping pills, school uniform and reading
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Jun 2, 2017
How would you do in a spelling bee? (video)
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Jun 2, 2017
USA: Ananya Vinay, 12, wins US spelling bee with 'marocain'
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Jun 2, 2017
Scottish schools will improve within 4 years, SNP promises
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Jun 2, 2017
Sturgeon savaged over ‘disastrous’ record on Scottish schools ahead of General Election
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Jun 1, 2017
Reading for pleasure falls after primary school years
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Jun 1, 2017
Record number of teenagers say they enjoy reading
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Jun 1, 2017
Scaled-up literacy scheme fails to produce positive results
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May 30, 2017
Scotland: Tories focus on the basics of education
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May 30, 2017
General election special: How the election might affect you
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May 28, 2017
Roger Crofts: Geography undervalued in understanding of world
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May 26, 2017
Poor verbal skills weaken 30,000 pupils’ GSCEs
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May 25, 2017
How our education system fails young engineers
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May 25, 2017
IPads 'help improve young pupils' skills'
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May 24, 2017
Pupil letter-writers have chance to be published alongside Jacqueline Wilson
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May 22, 2017
University leaders hit back over teacher training claims
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May 22, 2017
Ditch the grammar and teach children storytelling instead
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May 19, 2017
More Sats 'chaos' as two thirds of moderators fail to assess pupils' work correctly
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May 19, 2017
Review calls for Reception Year to stay in EYFS
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May 19, 2017
Formal learning starts too young, say early years teachers
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May 18, 2017
Report identifies 'wide disparity' over time student teachers spend on basic skills
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May 18, 2017
Trainee teachers ‘need literacy test’
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May 18, 2017
Calls for reading and basic maths tests for new teachers
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May 17, 2017
Ruth Davidson calls for trainee teachers to pass tough literacy and numeracy tests
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May 17, 2017
Call for regulation on securing children’s data in personalised reading
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May 17, 2017
Concerns over scrapping of ‘disturbing’ literacy and numeracy survey
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May 17, 2017
Scottish teaching degrees scrutinised over standards of literacy and numeracy
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May 17, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon celebrates 'record exam levels' as she ignores SNP's education failures
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May 16, 2017
Exodus of graduates to fast-track teaching programme in England
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May 16, 2017
The best children's books of the year – according to teachers
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May 15, 2017
Sturgeon admits curriculum’s literacy and numeracy failures
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May 15, 2017
Pioneering scheme seeks to close the poverty-related vocabulary gap in primary school
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May 15, 2017
Sturgeon admits failures in her education policies
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May 15, 2017
Flaws raise doubts over CfE’s suitability
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May 14, 2017
Nicola Sturgeon admits SNP 'must do better' on education
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May 14, 2017
Angela Rayner unveils Labour's three-point plan to transform education and schools
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May 14, 2017
Level 3 apprenticeship consultation is ‘flawed’
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May 14, 2017
Analysis: What is ‘baby PISA’?
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May 14, 2017
Euan McColm: Hands up who has a plan to fix failing schools
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May 14, 2017
Scotland must return to the school of hard Knox
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May 14, 2017
Concern over decision to axe key Scots pupil survey
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May 13, 2017
Priorities for a new government: advice from our academics part 2
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May 12, 2017
Labour launches National Education Service
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May 12, 2017
The Global Search for Education: Meet the Ministers – from Scotland – John Swinney
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May 12, 2017
Urgent call for more school librarians to halt slide in literacy standards
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May 12, 2017
Sats: Children left in tears after their final maths test
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May 11, 2017
First Minister 'determined' to carry on with educational reforms
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May 11, 2017
There is much to be optimistic about in Wales' schools, writes a leading expert
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May 11, 2017
Teachers lack skills to teach basic maths and literacy
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May 11, 2017
Pupils should ditch devices and read for pleasure, schools told
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May 11, 2017
Grammar protects children against the snobbish critics
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May 11, 2017
Tom Peterkin: No hiding place from damning school report card
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May 10, 2017
Scottish trainee teachers not getting the right skills
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May 10, 2017
The young people who don’t fall NEET-ly into the picture
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May 10, 2017
Trainee primary teachers 'lack' basic literacy and numeracy skills
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May 10, 2017
Education reform 'imperative' in Scotland after slump in pupils' writing scores
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May 10, 2017
Trainee teachers graduate ‘without skills to teach P7 maths’
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May 10, 2017
Pity our children – they’re being turned into grammar robots at school | Gaby Hinsliff
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May 10, 2017
Scotland: ‘Shameful’ figures reveal decline in school literacy
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May 10, 2017
Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence
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May 9, 2017
Swinney under attack over ‘shameful’ literacy report
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May 9, 2017
Literacy levels drop among Scots pupils
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May 9, 2017
Fewer than half of pupils in S2 performing well in writing
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May 9, 2017
Figures show drop in Scottish pupil literacy rates
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May 9, 2017
Battle on the adverbials front: grammar advisers raise worries about Sats tests and teaching
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May 9, 2017
Sats: Reading test 'kinder' than last year
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May 8, 2017
UK adult skills not aligned with industry, warns OECD
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May 4, 2017
NUT Cymru react to new testing approach
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May 2, 2017
Morpurgo: 'Dark spider' of Sats is bringing fear to classrooms
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May 2, 2017
Wales reading and numeracy tests to be taken online
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May 2, 2017
Online assessments will replace test papers for reading and numeracy
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May 2, 2017
Teaching practical functional English and maths as 'the standard' for all children and young people
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May 2, 2017
Speed and fluency 'as important as accuracy' for good writing, finds research
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Apr 28, 2017
The one thing all schools should teach (but don’t)
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Apr 26, 2017
Bestselling writers to critique pupils' stories in competition
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Apr 24, 2017
Phonics leads to easier, more accurate, reading, new research finds
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Apr 20, 2017
UK employers are spending less on training than other major EU economies
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Apr 19, 2017
2017's shortlist for the Picture Book Awards
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Apr 12, 2017
Vast majority of primary teachers feel 'overworked' after assessment changes
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Apr 5, 2017
#PicBookDay: The power of picture books
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Apr 5, 2017
Religious ethos ‘does not affect pupil attainment’
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Apr 3, 2017
A school has been rated ‘excellent’ in all five categories - a rare highest mark from inspectors
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Mar 31, 2017
Ofsted will treat this year's writing assessment with 'caution'
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Mar 31, 2017
Ministers pave way to scrap Sats tests for seven-year-olds
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Mar 30, 2017
Sats: What you need to know about the government's plans to fix primary assessment
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Mar 30, 2017
Government proposes scrapping tests for 7-year-olds
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Mar 30, 2017
Update on Primary Assessment in England
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Mar 30, 2017
Government to consider scrapping Sats tests for seven-year-olds
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Mar 30, 2017
Test fewer pupils on more subjects: campaigners offer alternative primary assessment plan
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Mar 29, 2017
Jill Stephenson: We need foreigners to teach kids English
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Mar 28, 2017
Congratulatory letters for schools at key stage 2
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Mar 24, 2017
Focus on phonics excludes SEND children from the discussion on literacy, charity warns
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Mar 23, 2017
How dogs could make children better readers
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Mar 22, 2017
EPI report: National Funding Formula shifts cash away from poorest schools, and 5 other findings
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Mar 17, 2017
Adorable dog called Brian being used by primary school to help children learn to read
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Mar 16, 2017
Harold Rosen’s 50-year-old revolutionary message: children bring a wealth of culture, language and experience to the classroom
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Mar 15, 2017
Martin Crewe: Education alone will not close attainment gap
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Mar 15, 2017
Charities ‘vital’ to close school attainment gap
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Mar 15, 2017
What’s the point of school?
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Mar 14, 2017
The simple literacy and numeracy questions that 600 Australian student teachers failed to answer correctly
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Mar 13, 2017
Labour to raise motion criticising SNP education performance
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Mar 8, 2017
Call for researchers to highlight negative 'side effects' of methods like phonics
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Mar 6, 2017
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s Classroom Hero: why World Comic Book Day is next | JA Micheline
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Mar 3, 2017
New research publication about the development of literacy skills
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Mar 3, 2017
Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium: guide for schools
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Mar 2, 2017
How the humble comic book could become the next classroom superhero
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Mar 2, 2017
My manifesto for education: Scrap the current curriculum & bring in the industry innovators
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Mar 1, 2017
World Book Day: What’s your favourite children’s book? Here are ours
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Mar 1, 2017
World Book Day 2017: teachers, send us pictures of your costumes
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Feb 28, 2017
DE Johnston: SNP is responsible for fall in school standards
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Feb 28, 2017
Expert calls for more time for reading in schools to combat "smartphone" generation
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Feb 28, 2017
London university offers free course just for refugees and asylum seekers
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Feb 23, 2017
Teacher changes accent to avoid 'village idiot' tag
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Feb 23, 2017
Expert: Focus on national school tests "could damage reading"
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Feb 23, 2017
Novels by YouTube stars are ruining children’s reading ages, experts warn
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Feb 23, 2017
Reading age slips as pupils leave primary
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Feb 23, 2017
Ofqual ‘extremely cautious’ about more primary testing changes
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Feb 22, 2017
Survey of CYP workforce reveals 'training gap' in speech, language and communication
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Feb 22, 2017
Prince Harry praises teacher 'compassion'
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Feb 22, 2017
Sats-style maths exam for university applicants 'could help post-Brexit Britain compete'
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Feb 21, 2017
Universities admit high numbers of students who are ‘almost illiterate’, say lecturers
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Feb 17, 2017
Third of children 'not reaching expectations'
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Feb 17, 2017
Most parents want early years teachers in nurseries
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Feb 17, 2017
Shortage of early years teachers 'risks developmental delay' for 800,000 children
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Feb 17, 2017
Universities admit students who are 'almost illiterate', lecturers warn
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Feb 16, 2017
Graduate nursery staff have 'little effect' on children
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Feb 14, 2017
More than a third of pupils aged 7-9 can't use joined-up handwriting, survey shows
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Feb 14, 2017
This much I know about…modelling deliberate writing to a hall full of more than one hundred Year 13 students
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Feb 14, 2017
Supermodel David Gandy calls on pupils to read more
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Feb 13, 2017
New tricks: teaching children magic helps with their education
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Feb 10, 2017
This much I know about…teaching Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “War Photographer
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Feb 10, 2017
Bright but poor pupils ‘lag behind richer peers’ in Scotland
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Feb 9, 2017
Three year attainment gap between poor pupils and their better-off classmates separates Britain’s brightest teenage girls
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Feb 9, 2017
'Waste of talent' as poor pupils lag behind richer peers
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Feb 9, 2017
New report warns Scotland's brightest pupils are being left behind
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Feb 9, 2017
Research reveals England’s ‘entrenched literacy problems’
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Feb 8, 2017
New Wales Donaldson curriculum facing 'challenges'
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Feb 7, 2017
Gaelic pupils outperforming their peers in literacy skills
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Feb 4, 2017
Tight budgets harm standards, says world school ranking boss
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Feb 3, 2017
Phonics resits plan for seven and eight-year-olds dropped
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Feb 2, 2017
Almost half of pupils who take the phonics check for a third time fail, DfE trial shows
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Feb 2, 2017
Workforce strategy not expected until end February
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Feb 1, 2017
British school children could be guinea pigs for controversial new tests despite other nations rejecting them
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Jan 31, 2017
Andy McNab says joyless education is damaging poor children's literacy
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Jan 31, 2017
‘We’re not hippies, we’re punks.’ School that has projects, not subjects, on the timetable
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Jan 31, 2017
Dear Justine Greening, whatever happened to ‘eradicating illiteracy’? | Michael Rosen
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Jan 31, 2017
Education Minister launches UCL and Arsenal literacy initiative
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Jan 30, 2017
#LiteracyWorks campaign launches today
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Jan 30, 2017
Moving toward a better global understanding of literacy
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Jan 26, 2017
National Literacy Trust - January 2017 newsletter
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Jan 16, 2017
I can't answer school exam questions about my own poems, says US poet
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Jan 10, 2017
Teachers should keep their regional accents, say pupils
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Jan 6, 2017
Christmas appeal: literacy charity Hackney Pirates needs help to get shipshape again
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Dec 16, 2016
Almost half of children leave primary school unable to read and write properly, performance tables reveal
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Dec 15, 2016
Children who speak English as a second language more likely to overachieve in primary school, figures show
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Dec 15, 2016
Spelling, punctuation and grammar quiz: Are you smarter than an 11-year-old?
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Dec 15, 2016
Scotland: Pupils are failing in the basics, say teachers
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Dec 14, 2016
Scotland: Swinney under fire as pupils fail to meet primary goals
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Dec 14, 2016
Swinney welcomes teacher numbers boost in light of 'challenges'
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Dec 13, 2016
28% of P7 pupils ‘not achieving required levels of literacy’
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Dec 13, 2016
28% of P7 pupils 'not achieving required levels of literacy and numeracy'
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Dec 13, 2016
SSAT 2016: Numeracy and literacy focus narrowed the curriculum, says Sean Harford
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Dec 12, 2016
Author Jacqueline Wilson backs children's diary campaign
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Dec 8, 2016
Education is at risk of drowning in a 'sea of jargon', admits qualifications boss
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Nov 24, 2016
School libraries change lives. Cutting them would be disastrous | Lucy Ivison
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Nov 17, 2016
Look at libraries over league tables when choosing a school
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Nov 16, 2016
Want your students to love learning? Get them to the library
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Nov 16, 2016
David Hughes discusses the AoC review, a more confident sector and English & Maths
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Nov 15, 2016
Every primary one pupil to be given picture book in literary push
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Nov 15, 2016
New measurement tracking early literacy progress to launch
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Nov 15, 2016
Reading tests 'should measure pupils' enjoyment', say children's charities
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Nov 15, 2016
Top authors call for school libraries to be protected
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Nov 14, 2016
Children's laureates demand UK government investigate school library closures
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Nov 14, 2016
Project-based learning holds back poor pupils
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Nov 4, 2016
More than 250 million children around the world have not mastered basic maths and reading
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Oct 7, 2016
Thousands more primary pupils on track to be excellent readers
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Sep 29, 2016
Poorer pupils fall further behind: 5 things we learnt from the KS1 results
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Sep 29, 2016
Poorer pupils fall further behind: 5 things we learnt from the KS1 results
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Sep 29, 2016
Phonics test results rise again but poorer pupils lag behind
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Sep 29, 2016
Nick Gibb: 147,000 more six-year-olds are on track to become fluent readers but we still have more to do
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Sep 29, 2016
Phonics results rise again but writing falls behind at KS1
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Sep 29, 2016
Sats: Big fall in number of seven-year-olds reaching expected standards under tougher testing regime
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Sep 29, 2016
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