Michael Rosen explains the difference between a phonics test and a reading test (Letter from a curious parent, Education, 31 January). In a phonics test, children pronounce words presented to them in a list. In a reading test, children have to understand what they read. Of great interest is the consistent finding that heavy phonics […]
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A young woman in Syria refuses to let a war and lack of electricity stop her ambition to be a student.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38798308
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The end of coal is inevitable but divestment will help accelerate the process, especially as we can’t rely on government to stabilise the environment The movement to divest from the fossil fuel industry has grown rapidly over recent years in tandem with the urgent need to decarbonise the global economy. In Australia, divestment commitments have
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Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian and Pakistani students in the US react to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning people from seven countries.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/38816782
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Increasing numbers of academies do not have enough income to cover their annual expenditure.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38809574
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The account @RoguePOTUSStaff purports to be leaking information about Donald Trump. Authentic or not, its sorrowful tone gives it a ring of truth Now that political satire is dead, we must make some decisions about what will occupy the space in our lives it used to fill. You might just shrug and say “events”. And
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I bought my five- and seven-year-old sons a toy gun in a supermarket. What happened next has changed our feelings about our place in Britain On the penultimate day of spring term 2016, my children – aged five and seven – were detained in isolation after school for nearly two hours and questioned by police
Schools are due to hear how much money they will receive from a government scheme to help raise attainment.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38816114
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Chinese scholar whose western alphabet system advanced literacy and comprehension between speakers of different languages A fortune teller once warned Zhou Youguang he would not live past 35. The prediction was plausible, as Zhou himself later noted. Average life expectancy in China was then around 30. He had experienced tuberculosis and depression and within a
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/01/raise-teaching-standards-must-first-improve-use-technology-classroom/
To raise teaching standards we must first improve the use of technology in the classroom Read More »