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Conservatives say schools should go back to basics citing a drop in international comparison of literacy standards
8 Oct 2009
Gove said Labour had overseen a comprehensive drop in exam standards, with the UK slumping from seventh in the world for literacy to 17th. Mr Gove said it was a scandal that so many pupils fell through the cracks in the system, failing to learn basics like reading. He said that under a Conservative government children would have a test after two years at primary school to make sure they are reading fluently.
- The Shadow Children’s Secretary also promised that the headteachers of every failing school in England
- would be sacked within months of a Tory election victory.
- Schools with the worst records would be forced to become academies, free of local government bureaucracy, within 18 months of the general election.
Read the article in the Daily Express (Daily Express, 8 October 2009).
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