News & Links
All the information that I place on the Alliance website is there to make it available for advocates of children’s wellbeing, so they are easily able to access any information they may need. If you use this service, it would be helpful if you acknowledged the Alliance for Childhood website as your source. We would also welcome any additional information, news items or research. This is the news that came in during the last 6 months. Any older items are in the archive.
Christopher Clouder
The Power of Family Conversation
Wednesday 14. of May 2008By: Harvard Education Letter
School matters, but literacy starts at home. Teachers armed with reading contracts and carefully worded missives have long urged parents to read aloud to their children. But now there is a second and perhaps more powerful...
Scotland to be 'named and shamed' by UN over child welfare failures
Monday 12. of May 2008By: The Scotsman
SCOTLAND will be "named and shamed" in a damning report to a United Nations watchdog for its failure to improve child welfare and tackle teenage pregnancies – five years after it was warned to make urgent improvements.
MPs to publish damning report on school tests
Monday 12. of May 2008By: The Guardian
Ministers will this week be under renewed pressure to scrap school tests for 11-year-olds amid mounting evidence that they undermine education standards and harm children.
Children's writers join the campaign to scrap Sats
Sunday 11. of May 2008By: The Independent
Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson are helping to put pressure on ministers to make this year's national curriculum tests the last
Pressure intensifies to cut 'excessive' school tests
Saturday 10. of May 2008By: The Guardian
The schools secretary, Ed Balls, will next week face new pressure to scale back Labour's school testing regime with the publication of a parliamentary report arguing that children are now being tested "excessively", the Guardian...
Poor results force government rethink on progress tests
Friday 09. of May 2008By: The Guardian
New national level tests for primary and secondary pupils are to be changed after only one in 10 passed one exam.
Children being failed by progressive teaching, say Tories
Friday 09. of May 2008By: The Guardian
Generations of children have been let down by so-called progressive education policies which have taught skills and "empathy" instead of bodies of knowledge, the shadow education secretary, Michael Gove, said yesterday.