From The Metro:
More than 1,400 primary schools have failed to meet the most modest of targets for literacy and numeracy – meaning thousands of 11-year-olds leave school unable to read and without a decent grounding in maths. In total, 1,472 schools had fewer than 55 per cent of their pupils – the government’s ‘floor target’ – achieving the national curriculum level four for both subjects in their Sats exams...
But schools minister Diana Johnson said there had been huge progress in raising standards. ‘This is down to the hard work of teaching professionals, coupled with record investment,’ she added...
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
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I'll have a stroke if I have to shout this any more. These results are precisely the result of the socialized curriculum - it is anti-intellectual, ideologically driven and has sfa to do with real learning, as in literacy and numeracy.
'caroline flint tits' is still the most popular search on here. Just thought I'd mention it..
JH, that's why i don't shout it any more, I just sigh it.
BTS, that's what Lijit says. But they are wrong, in real life I get many more hits from "Kate McCann tits" and "Serena WIlliams bum".
You'd think people would realise by now, extortion-funding only works for fighting aggression.
It doesn't do anything for welfare,
e.g. Learning, healthcare and poverty.
In fact it harms all three.
What is staggering is that these illiterate children are allowed to progress to secondary school.
Surely, the education system is not doing itself nor the children any favours by advancing them when the children are clearly ill-equipped to deal with primary school let alone secondary school?
Balls needs his scrotum ripped off and strangled with it.
Every time a report comes out, often citing the governments own figures, proving some failing or other ( be it the police, migration, NHS or, as in this cae, education ) they come out with a bland, trite phrase such as "huge progress in raising standards. ‘This is down to the hard work of teaching professionals, coupled with record investment" which does not even bother to refute the argument against them, just blatantly contradicts it, a la the Monty Python "I came here for an argument" sketch .
I agree, anything is possible in the formation of space. Who knows what other theories they will come up with later.
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