Do it all
DEVOTING an hour each day in primary schools to reading and writing is the latest in a flurry of educational initiatives from the new government. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said ministers' calls for more concentration on the basics would be welcome if they signalled a readiness to cut a “grossly overloaded” national curriculum. But in spite of results from yet another international study showing how badly British pupils do at mathematics, there is little reason to believe that the breadth of the curriculum really is impeding progress in the “three Rs”.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Do it all”
From the June 14th 1997 edition
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