Education letters

Education letters
Phonics tests, the baccalaureate and the cost of higher education ‘Glimp’ test Last week Warwick Mansell reported on pleas by literacy experts for a U-turn on the plan for phonics testing of six-year-olds. There’s an obvious point that the so-called literacy experts seem to miss. Of course there is more to reading than understanding that C-A-T makes the sound “cat”. Nevertheless, if you can’t do …

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