Government’s £1billion literacy drive fails GCSE test

The Blair government’s £1 billion campaign to raise literacy and numeracy standards in primary schools has failed to have any impact on GCSE results, according to a left-leaning think tank. An analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) shows that despite children’s achieving much better results at age 11, they have failed to show continued improvement at age 16. Read more about this story in The Times (U.K.).