Can Less be More? the Renewed Framework for English: Simon Gibbons Explains the Recently Published Renewed Framework for English, And Raises Some Issues About the Model of Progression It Promotes and Its Relationship with the National Curriculum

Curriculum Junk(ie) What with it being nearly a year since the National Curriculum rewrite was completed, a whole four months before new A Level specifications kick in, and the all new improved GCSE with added functional skills postponed until 2010, I was on the verge of heading into withdrawal. Fifteen years in English teaching has of course left me hopelessly addicted to curriculum and assessment change. What luck then, that, on the verge of desperation, I heard that the Key Stage 3 Framework was to be renewed.