▲ 109 ▼ More than half of UK children do not read in their spare time, survey reveals (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (3 children) Not sure about that last bit, Of Mice and Men is a pretty standard GCSE text and it's written by an American permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago Here’s a a report fron 2014 about it: https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/25/mockingbird-mice-and-men-axed-michael-gove-gcse permalink fedilink source parent [–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) As an ex-English teacher I can assure you that’s the case. It changed in the 2016 reforms (when, among other things grades turned into numbers). It’s the same for To Kill a Mockingbird, another much-taught US text. Some schools use Of Mice and Men as class readers in Year 8 and 9. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Well that's daft, they're both perfectly good books. I finished my gcse's in 2016 so must've narrowly missed it permalink fedilink source parent [–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago Here’s a a report fron 2014 about it: https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/25/mockingbird-mice-and-men-axed-michael-gove-gcse permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago Here’s a a report fron 2014 about it: https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/25/mockingbird-mice-and-men-axed-michael-gove-gcse permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) As an ex-English teacher I can assure you that’s the case. It changed in the 2016 reforms (when, among other things grades turned into numbers). It’s the same for To Kill a Mockingbird, another much-taught US text. Some schools use Of Mice and Men as class readers in Year 8 and 9. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Well that's daft, they're both perfectly good books. I finished my gcse's in 2016 so must've narrowly missed it permalink fedilink source parent
[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Well that's daft, they're both perfectly good books. I finished my gcse's in 2016 so must've narrowly missed it permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago Here’s a a report fron 2014 about it: https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/25/mockingbird-mice-and-men-axed-michael-gove-gcse permalink fedilink source parent