June 23rd, 2008
United Kingdom: English Children Can’t Read English
In the country that gave birth to the English language, one in five 11 year olds can’t read and have failed to master mathematics.
The United Kingdom’s chief schools inspector, Christine Gilbert, warned last month that these children could be on the educational scrapheap at 16 — unemployed and pursuing no further training. Gilbert said: “If education in England is going to compare favorably with the best in the world, standards need to improve. In fact they have stalled. We have said so in our documentation. We need to accelerate improvements and we are looking at ways of doing that.
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