Primary Briefing: Simon Wrigley Reflects on Recent Trends in Government Policy on Reading in Primary Schools. Simon Wrigley is an Ex-Chair of NATE and a Member of the NATE Secondary Committee

By English Drama Media

Release : 2008-06-01

Genre : Education, Books, Professional & Technical

Kind : ebook

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Statistics--and inconvenient truths We have got used to 'Every Child Matters'; now this year we have 'Every Child a Reader'; next year we will get 'Every Child Counts'. You can see a pattern emerging, can't you? And what does this litany of platitudes prove other than the lack of any but the most vote-catching thoughts about education? That unless someone in business, bureaucracy or politics gives us the latest sound-bite, the teaching profession would actually be hell-bent on eating children? 'Every Child's Sweet'?

Primary Briefing: Simon Wrigley Reflects on Recent Trends in Government Policy on Reading in Primary Schools. Simon Wrigley is an Ex-Chair of NATE and a Member of the NATE Secondary Committee

By English Drama Media

Release : 2008-06-01

Genre : Education, Books, Professional & Technical

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Statistics--and inconvenient truths We have got used to 'Every Child Matters'; now this year we have 'Every Child a Reader'; next year we will get 'Every Child Counts'. You can see a pattern emerging, can't you? And what does this litany of platitudes prove other than the lack of any but the most vote-catching thoughts about education? That unless someone in business, bureaucracy or politics gives us the latest sound-bite, the teaching profession would actually be hell-bent on eating children? 'Every Child's Sweet'?

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