[lg policy] Primary school 'street' talk breeding illiteracy, claims thinktank

[Anthea Fraser Gupta]

Oh dear. How could one of us get on a think tank?

The scariest sentence, for me, was "The author, Miriam Gross, said schools were not repeating phonics "over and over again" but allowing a child-led approach to hold sway."  Child-led is bad?!?!?!

Anthea
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Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
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From: lgpolicy-list-bounces at groups.sas.upenn.edu [lgpolicy-list-bounces at groups.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Sayers [dave.sayers at cantab.net]
Sent: 20 July 2010 09:22
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Subject: [lg policy] Primary school 'street' talk breeding illiteracy,  claims thinktank

  The latest manifestation of a familiar argument:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/19/primary-schools-street-literacy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10686477

The report mentioned in the articles is here:

http://www.cps.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&id=412

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers
Honorary Research Fellow
School of the Environment and Society
Swansea University
dave.sayers at cantab.net
http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers

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