Tag: education
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Other Worlds: Poetry (in Schools) Please
Yesterday Macmillan publishers and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education announced the result of research done on the place of poetry in primary schools – the first of its kind since a report by Ofsted in 2007. The conclusions make depressing, but not entirely surprising, reading: many teachers don’t feel confident teaching poetry and…
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Tweeting Ourselves to Death
I was once part of a large, discussion-based event for secondary school students, where the organisers (I was one of them) tasked the participants with discussing whether social media was bad or good for the world. The arguments they came up with were, as you might expect, varied and nuanced, and, when they drafted them,…
Jeremy Wikeley 