Posts Tagged reading
Reoffending Prison(Provid)er
Posted by Carolina Bracken in Crime, Education, Security on 18/01/2011
After a year of industrial unrest, damning assessments, and accusation of falsifying records, the country’s largest further education college has once again come under fire. The Manchester College (TMC) now faces an investigation by the Skills Funding Agency over its offender learning at HMP&YOI Reading, after a whistleblower alleged that the education provider regularly receives overpayments of public money.
Media Information: Read All About It
Posted by Nick Cowen in Education on 05/09/2007
Weak reading lies at the heart of the educational apartheid between the advantaged and disadvantaged, and England’s low social mobility. The inability to read properly is the single greatest handicap to progress both in school and adult life.
As of this week, all children in primary schools will be taught to read using ‘first and fast’ synthetic phonics. This means that children’s first experience in school of learning to read will be to learn 44 letter sounds which they will be taught to blend together – or ’synthesise’ – to form words.
Background: despite additional billions invested in education, a significant achievement gap between rich and poor persists. [p2] At the heart of this lie poor reading skills:
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Original ‘flagship’ National Literacy Strategy has failed to drive up reading standards
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Government policy was based on flawed methods touted for decades by ‘trendy’ academics
This government’s move to systematic synthetic phonics in the classroom brings new hope that children of all backgrounds will be taught to read properly, according to a report by the independent think-tank Civitas.