| Teaching News and Events (11/5/13) Posted: 11 May 2013 02:04 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: - Children attending village schools in Britain are outperforming their inner-city peers despite a clear "urban advantage" elsewhere in the western world, according to international research.
- More than half the schools in England’s priority building scheme do not have guaranteed funding, it has emerged.
- The Education Secretary Michael Gove has accused some teachers of promoting an “infantilised” view of history.
- Summer-born children should have their exam marks boosted to compensate for being almost a year younger when they sit tests, a report argues.
- Tougher exams planned for England will not automatically boost standards, an Oxford University report argues.
- The government’s planned overhaul of GCSEs in England could see results “varying more than normal” for several years, the exams regulator has said.
- Teenagers should be awarded GCSE scores rather than grades, the international exams group Cambridge Assessment says.
- Excelling at the ‘three Rs’ in primary school is the key to having a well-paid job in adulthood regardless of your family background, according to a new study.
- Overall progress by pupils studying English and maths is a better measure of school performance than an over-emphasis on exam results, England’s exam regulator has told the government.
- School inspectors’ reports should be scrapped and replaced with write-ups by parents, students and teachers, according to the thinktank Demos.
- Michael Rosen has written a response to the criticism that he has received by Education Secretary Michael Gove, over the new SPAG test.
- This page on The Telegraph’s site lets you see if you would pass GSCE Science?
- Thousands of state schools in England are to be offered free bus journeys to famous historic sites under a scheme announced by English Heritage.
- A school in Worcestershire has a garden for each class, where children tend to the crops and grow food.
Next week's Teaching Events include: - 12th May – International Nurses Day
- 12th to 18th May – Christian Aid Week
- 15th May – First Day of Shavuot
- 15th May – International Day of Families
- 18th May – International Museum Day
- 19th May – Pentecost
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