Michael Rosen

A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

A story to celebrate about schools and libraries

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I was sent this today: " For three years Carterton Community College was an Oxfordshire secondary school with no library after a pr...

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Open Letter to Tristram Hunt on Reading. Do it!

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Dear Tristram Hunt You may or may not be aware but your predecessors in your position on the Labour Front Bench have considered and reject...

Monday, 21 October 2013

PS to grammar talk

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17. One of the consequences of the preceding 16 points on the previous blog is that we (me too) all get drawn into thinking that 'real...

Grammar talk - the latest chapter

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Anyone listening to BBC Radio 4 World at One today would have heard an argument between two people talking about 'grammar', one the...

Sunday, 20 October 2013

Idiocy: DfE rules on how you will use letters to emphasize

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According to Shane Thatcher (facebook friend) the DfE have told headteachers that in the Yr 6 SPaG test (spelling, punctuation and gramm...

SWP: untruth about me from Callinicos and Kimber

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SWP saga continues. People and groups within the SWP are producing documents and counter-documents. In some of these, some people are re...

Sunday, 13 October 2013

Tristram Hunt - what he could have said.

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What are we to make of Tristram Hunt's announcement about Free Schools? 1. First and foremost it reveals that Labour are not going to ...

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