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Literacy

October 2026

  • Students in school uniforms gather around a globe on a desk, smiling and pointing

    The Guardian view on schools: the hardest questions for Lucy Powell are about priorities

  • A teacher sits at her desk writing with a pencil while marking an open folder of papers

    Brief letters
    My school report was a comprehension test for me and my mother

September 2026

  • A young man in a cap reads an open book between tall library bookshelves, viewed from above

    Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis?

  • A girl reaches up to a bookshelf in a school library

    The New Dark Ages by James Marriott review – a grandiose but superficial defence of reading

  • John Harris

    🏆 āļĒāļ­āļ”āļ™āļīāļĒāļĄ: education/literacy - āļŠāļĢāļļāļ›āļ”āļĢāļēāļĄāđˆāļēāļĨāđˆāļēāļŠāļļāļ”Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can

    John Harris
  • A school pupil sits in a hall at a desk writing, with other students in the hall around her

    England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science

  • ‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teach

  • Women are giving their partners the ‘Illiterate Boyfriend’ test: ‘Do your best to pronounce these words’

August 2026

  • Dolly Parton holds newborn Emma wrapped in pink, beside her seated parents

    ‘In walked this big bundle of energy’: the day Dolly Parton came to Rotherham

    Country star came to South Yorkshire town in 2007 for UK launch of the Imagination Library, her book donation scheme
  • A Kodak ‘Box Brownie’ camera from the 1930s.

    Brief letters
    Cameras we owned way before the 1970s

    Brief letters: Snapshot in time | Dorothy Whipple’s home | Reading writers | Nominative determinism on letters | Hope of rain

    • ‘I just give from my heart’: how Dolly Parton’s philanthropy focused most on helping children

    • 🏆 āļĒāļ­āļ”āļ™āļīāļĒāļĄ: education/literacy - āļŠāļĢāļļāļ›āļ”āļĢāļēāļĄāđˆāļēāļĨāđˆāļēāļŠāļļāļ”Could you predict which children will be Neets? No – and it’s unfair to ask that of teachers

      Daisy Christodoulou

    • Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?

July 2026

  • Boy with Impossible Creatures

    Every year 6 student to be given Katherine Rundell book for Christmas

    More than 800,000 copies of Impossible Creatures will be distributed to year 6 and P6 children through The Queen’s Christmas Present initiative
  • A young male student reading a book in a library.

    National Year of Reading should extend to a decade, inquiry says

    The education committee also proposed a National Reading Guarantee, ensuring all children have frequent opportunities to enjoy reading

    • Brief letters
      Going shirtless is so this season for Scots

    • How to solve the literacy crisis in schools

    • Third of disadvantaged white pupils in England leave primary school without being able to read properly

June 2026

  • Stacks of colorful Diary of a Wimpy Kid books arranged on display, showing various titles and cover designs

    Teenage boys in UK ‘stuck’ reading primary-level books while girls’ tastes expand

  • Roddy Doyle with glasses and a grey beard smiles in front of a building with arched windows

    Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates

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