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Andy McNab says joyless education is damaging poor children's literacy

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Bravo Two Zero author, who didn’t learn to read until he was 16, says his experience working in schools shows that a box-ticking approach to tuition inhibits reading skills of the less privileged Government literacy policy that emphasises grammar over enjoyment is discriminating against poor children and has contributed to England’s position at the bottom […]

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Term-time holiday ban would criminalise parents, supreme court told

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But government lawyers argue parents should not be allowed to take children from school ‘when the sun is out’ Parents will be criminalised on an unprecedented scale if judges reverse an earlier ruling that overturned a ban on term-time holidays, the supreme court has been told. Lawyers representing Jon Platt, who was fined after taking

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Dear Justine Greening, whatever happened to ‘eradicating illiteracy’? | Michael Rosen

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In 2011 the schools minister trumpeted the benefits of phonics teaching. But a quarter of seven-year-olds’ literacy skills still haven’t made the cut Back in 2005, the BBC reported David Cameron (you’ll remember him), then shadow education secretary, saying: “The biggest problem facing education today is the fact that one in five 11-year-olds leaves primary

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Bigger classes and fewer teachers for 1,500 London schools

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Government formula will cut budgets at 70% of capital’s schools already enduring funding freeze, London Councils says More than 1,500 schools in London will move to larger class sizes and fewer teachers under the government’s proposed national funding formula, according to forecasts by boroughs in the capital that predict they will suffer cuts of £360m

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