Education News – Sherlynn Summers
“Conservatives in the United Kingdom have supported a new set of policies which embody part of a new drive to reduce illiteracy and innumeracy. The new set of rules is backed by education secretary Nicky Morgan and aim in promoting the development of mathematical skills, punctuation, spelling and grammar through a writing test taken by the pupils…The requirements also ask 11-year-olds to be able to read a novel, write a short story and be fluent in their times table up to 12 by the end of the primary schooling…Morgan’s comments follow a major educational speech by Prime Minister David Cameron, who is still in the process of making further announcements regarding the structural modifications of state schools.”(more)