| Teaching News and Events (22/6/13) Posted: 22 Jun 2013 02:00 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: Schools: - Many of the poor children being left behind in schools now are in suburbs, market towns and seaside resorts rather than big cities, England’s chief inspector of schools has said.
- State school pupils in some local authorities in England are more than twice as likely to go to university as those from other areas, data suggests.
- Sir Michael Wilshaw warned that the assessment of pupils’ grasp of the current nursery-age curriculum is "too broad" and comes "too late" at the end of the first year of primary school.
- Primary school teachers know so little about religion that more than two thirds are now relying on websites like Wikipedia to plan their RE lessons, a study shows.
- The coalition’s Priority Schools Building programme is not delivering results and some pupils are still being taught in buildings that were declared inadequate 10 years ago.
- More than half a million pupils in England are to start the new “national” curriculum in September 2014, only to be tested on the old one in 2015, the Department for Education has confirmed.
- The government has rejected Labour calls for specially-trained teachers to be brought in to educate children about the dangers of internet pornography.
- A dyslexic author branded "unteachable" at school has won this year's prestigious Carnegie Medal for children's literature, as she uses her platform to condemn Michael Gove's "hypocritical" reforms.
- A formerly unhappy schoolboy, David Dovey, has saved thousands of Doctor Who books from landfill and is now giving them away free to schools across the UK.
- Nearly half the titles read by children in a new national schools reading competition were read online, says literacy charity Booktrust.
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