Wednesday, 30 March 2016

How to improve productivity, using schools and education

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Why and how do councils and academies sell off school land

SPaG - French and German kids do it. Do they?

Monday, 28 March 2016

Formal writing/informal writing. Obvious distinction. But not.

'Grammar' in the primary school in the 1950s

All sentences have full stops. Not.

How bad writing gets to be called 'good writing', thanks to 'Guidance' on 'meeting age expectations'.

In SPaGspeak, a command is only a command when SPaG says it is a 'command'

The DfE teaches us how to write bad sentences

Sunday, 27 March 2016

For parents and teachers wanting to oppose the Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar tests.

‘We’ll ensure discredited ideas unsupported by firm evidence are not promoted to new teachers.’

Saturday, 26 March 2016

O yes it is. Oh no they're not. Oh yes it is. Oh no they're not, says 'Englicious'.

Englicious says that both 3 and 4 are correct! - and a lot more besides.

People with linguistics degrees can't answer my son's SPaG homework. Can you?

Friday, 25 March 2016

Holiday SPaG test rehearsal craziness...over to you.

Voice from inside an academy

Gibb on academies this morning. It's nonsense.

With great hopes, Fronted Adverbial Academy is set up.

Thursday, 24 March 2016

Academies, Nick Gibb, Nicky Morgan, George Osborne, exclamation marks,

Monday, 21 March 2016

1938, 2016 - conferences and refugees

This poem was read out in Trafalgar Square on Saturday

How 'grammar' becomes mystical and takes power away from us

6 thoughts on the DfE 'glossary' and grammar

Sunday, 20 March 2016

Here are the DfE's own 'errors' that our children get punished for.

Whatever happened to the Dangling Participle Crisis?

Fronted adverbials - but what about 'fronted adjectivals'? Panic!

DfE can't and doesn't stick to its own rules on 'errors' in language

What they migrate - but don't call 'migration'.

Friday, 18 March 2016

DfE letter gets their own version of 'grammar' WRONG. DfE FAILS.

Monday, 14 March 2016

How did 'grammar' stage a coup and take control of 'good writing' in primary schools?

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