| Teaching News and Events (5/10/13) Posted: 05 Oct 2013 02:00 AM PDT  Here are links to some of this week’s education-related news: - Fewer children across the UK are reading in their own time and one in five is embarrassed to be caught with a book, a survey suggests.
- More children have passed the new phonics reading test for England’s five- and six-year-olds this year.
- Teachers in China have the highest levels of public respect, according to an international study comparing their status in 21 countries.
- Thousands of schools were closed as members of the two biggest teaching unions took strike action in a row over pay, pensions and workloads.
- Teachers in England and Wales could be won over to performance-related pay but need reassurance about its fairness and efficiency, a think tank claims.
- Private schools have been accused of failing to support their local state schools, in a “call to arms” from Ofsted chief, Sir Michael Wilshaw.
- Children in England’s schools are being damaged by a culture of “incessant testing”, says a group of academics and writers, including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
- Only a student's first entry to a GCSE examination will count in their school's performance tables.
- Masterpieces by Lowry and Monet have been touring schools around Britain as part of an initiative to inspire young people.
- Parents are made to feel it is morally unacceptable to pay for an education, says a private schools leader.
- One in 20 teenage pupils goes to school on a can of energy drink instead of a good breakfast, a survey suggests.
- More than two-thirds of people aged 13 to 22 have been bullied online with boys and girls equally affected, according to charity Ditch the Label.
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