Early reading champion warns that improvements in literacy may suffer from wider change and lack of support.
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Posts on ‘January 26th, 2009’
Early phonics success ‘may wane’
390,000 to access child database
A database which will hold the details of every child in England is attacked as a “data disaster waiting to happen”.
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Pupils return to troubled academy
A troubled city academy opens its doors again after being forced to close for a day because of a pupil protest.
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Local authorities receive funding to run phonics programmes for young children
Local authorities are to get £9m to run phonics programmes for young children, the schools secretary, Ed Balls, confirmed today.
Synthetic phonics is a system of teaching reading, recommended by the government’s adviser, Sir Jim Rose, where children learn the sounds of letters and how they blend into words.
The £9m, first announced in November last year, [...]
Drop in school pupil exclusions
The number of pupils being excluded from Scottish schools has dropped by 10% in the past year, statistics show.
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Free running could be taught in secondary schools
Free running – the sport based on running and leaping over and across buildings and urban obstacles – could be taught in every secondary school in the country under radical proposals to cut youth crime.
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University doubts over Diplomas
Many teachers do not think Diplomas are the best route for students wanting to go to university, a survey suggests.
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