5) A rose by any other name?

One of the most thorough reviews of primary schooling ever undertaken in the UK has reported. They found that there has been an overemphasis on the ‘3 Rs’ in primary education, causing the educational experience to become too narrow and to stifle pupil development http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/schoolchildrens-lives-are-being-impoverished-1627047.html Some see this as a spoiler for the government’s sponsored review of primary schooling, the Rose review, which is due to report later in the year. I’m happy to await the Rose review, I rather like the emphasis on the 3 Rs and I’m not convinced that a broader educational experience would help those who are failing to become functionally literate and numerate.