Does the National Education Union want teenagers to count on their fingers? That’s the consequence if one severs mathematics education from its base in arithmetic.
Phonics are the basis of learning to read in any language that uses an alphabet.
Toby Young has a fantastic post for the Telegraph with a title that says it all: “Why do Left-wing academics keep on on writing to newspapers posing as disinterested 'experts'? They're fooling no one” Certainly not Mr Young, who provides an invaluable public service by fisking the living daylights out of these missives. This week’s […]