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            <title><![CDATA[Early Reading Skills: ERS Articles]]></title>
            <link>http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/</link>
            <description>Teaching Early Reading Skills</description>
            <copyright>Copyright 2007 Empirical Praxis Ltd</copyright>
   
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         <title><![CDATA[Allocation of school places by lottery]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The growing trend to allocate secondary school places by lottery has lead to an increase in the number of children applying to and attending, private schools.]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=12]]></link>
         <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Quality of Primary Education is Questioned]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The target driven culture has been blamed again for the poor quality of education in England’s Primary Schools]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=11]]></link>
         <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Primary School Children Over Tested]]></title>
         <author><![CDATA[epraxis]]></author>
         <description><![CDATA[Primary school children in England are subject to more testing at a young age than most other western 
countries.]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=10]]></link>
         <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Village Schools set for Closure]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of village schools are set to close as they are failing to meet government targets for pupil numbers. The falling birth rate and a demographic shift are said to be responsible.]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=9]]></link>
         <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lack of reading skills damaging the economy]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Research by Cambridge University has found that failure to teach children basic skills in reading writing and maths is damaging the economy.]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=8]]></link>
         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:50:04 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Children who enjoy reading rate higher on the happiness scale]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A recent survey form the National Literacy Trust on Primary school children, conducted into early reading skills and reading perception, has shown that children who define themselves as readers think of themselves as happier and more intelligent than peers who do not read…]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=7]]></link>
         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:50:03 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The reading performance of children in England has fallen]]></title>
         <author><![CDATA[epraxis]]></author>
         <description><![CDATA[The reading performance of children in England has fallen from third to 19th in the world in a major assessment the BBC reported 28th November 2007. Scotland is reported as falling from 14th place to 26th.]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=6]]></link>
         <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:51:03 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Parents teaching their children to read - State education opt-out]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Many parents are not prepared to leave the education of their children in the hands of the state. Teaching your child to read is seen as having a significant impact on a child’s early education, and the right education is increasingly seen as the route to attainment and life opportunities.]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=4]]></link>
         <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:50:02 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The continued phonics debate]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Education collides again with politics as the Conservatives announce that every child under a conservative government would be expected to read by age 
six]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=3]]></link>
         <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:50:01 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Gifted and Talented Programme Fails to Shine]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[In a column written by India Knight of the Sunday Times it is reported that the UK’s Gifted and Talented programme is failing children.]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=2]]></link>
         <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Half of schools declared substandard]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Daily Express (18th October 2007) reports, along with many other papers, that Ofstead teams judged 1 in 10 schools inadequate...]]></description>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.earlyreadingskills.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=1]]></link>
         <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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