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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
New skills could be included in literacy lessons Primary school children should be taught to understand the "language" of advertisers and spin doctors to stop them becoming too susceptible to sophisticated campaigns, it has been claimed. Steve Fuller, a professor of sociology at Warwick University, believes that "media literacy" should be taught to children from the age of five...
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The Age (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
In an effort to raise the profile of maths and lift falling participation in the subject, 81 new specialist maths coaches will be sent into Victorian primary schools in low socio-economic areas to train their colleagues how to teach maths.
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mutations of mortality (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I have been asked to post this letter on my blog. It was a response to an article by Andrew Copson in the Guardian on Intelligent Design. I was happy to add my signature to it. Copson’s Ignorance of Intelligent Design Andrew Copson ('A Birthday Present for Darwin', 9th November) describes the proposal to teach evolution in primary schools as an ‘important defence against the ignorance of...
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
WINNING the Under-14 boy's high jump event was the perfect farewell gift Aminiasi Bureso wanted before leaving primary school.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildren Ed Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical and social understanding". Personally I did prefer the words "history" and "geography", partly because they're shorter. Presumably Balls,...
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Computer World (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A New Jersey teenager was sentenced to a year in jail and was fined $37,500 after pleading guilty to charges in connection with a DDOS attack on the Church of Scientology Web site.
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UK Commentators (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Working class white boys are officially the worst-performing group in English primary schools , official figures show. Fewer than half of white British boys from the poorest homes started secondary education with a decent grounding in the basics last summer, it was disclosed. Only 48 per cent of 11-year-olds eligible for free school lunches reached the standard expected of their age group in English...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Poor parents pick child's school because it is close to home, while middle-class parents go on good academic record Giving parents a choice over primary schools increases the social divide, a study reveals. The majority of poor parents pick their child's primary school because it is close to their home, while nearly half of middle-class parents opt for a school for its academic record, researchers...
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EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
PARENTS are set to step up the pressure in the fight to stop one of the county's best performing schools from closing.
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CREATIVE TALLIS (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Web Play are an organisation that work on developing projects that link schools through drama and new technologies. Billy, Seb, Billy and myself went to visit Sydney Thornbury from Web Play to find out more. She was really interested in the idea of students having a role in managing and developing projects for other students and would like to work with Tallis and the Creativity ARG to create something...
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Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Nov 6, 2009 by Yakub Qureshi and Neal Keeling POLICE seized video footage from a primary school after children were filmed on a CCTV system as they changed for gym lessons. The recording was seized after angry parents protested outside Charlestown Primary School in Salford. The parents had discovered that the school’s surveillance cameras were running round [...]...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
India is falling behind China in its attempts to increase the use of English, risking squandering a key economic advantage, a new report says.
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Conor's Commentary (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Until yesterday, Ed Balls had commendably resisted attempts by the teaching unions to scrap accountability, by refusing to abolish testing and league tables. Yesterday, he announced pefectly reasonably that teacher assessment results would be published in league tables alongside test scores. What was unreasonable was his suggestion that Key Stage 2 tests could go, in a shameful attempt to curry favour...
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Boscombe Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The council has given the go-ahead for a £5.3m refurbishment of Kings Park School. The money has come from the Government's primary capital programme, which aims to improve facilities at primary schools across the country. The Department for Children Schools and Families has also given a further £200,000 to improve the school's kitchen and dining facilities. St Michael's School in Bournemouth...
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The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
PARTS of Scotland remained under flood water today after a month's rain fell in just 36 hours in some places.
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achlaalok | 04/08/2009
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patrickguillard | 12/08/2008
The EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, inaugurates today the internet programme to inform bulgarian and romanian consumers on their rights.
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patrickguillard | 11/21/2008
A new study on the teaching of languages at schools in Europe by the Eurydice Network gives a comprehensive picture of language teaching, from primary to secondary general education, in the 31 countries involved in the EU's Lifelong Learning programme.
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