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Michael Heylings wonders what pupils have to catch up on,
Maureen Bell points to the enormous task facing schools and
Toby Wood says Marcus Rashford needs to be in charge. Plus letters from
Helen Walker,
Tony Roberts
‘Do young children need to be competent in long division or tricky computation with fractions, or name esoteric grammatical terminology?’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
‘Do young children need to be competent in long division or tricky computation with fractions, or name esoteric grammatical terminology?’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
Letters
Thu 3 Jun 2021 13.41 EDT
Last modified on Thu 3 Jun 2021 13.43 EDT
Regarding the government’s catch-up plan for schoolchildren (Pupils in England to be offered 100m hours of tuition in Covid catch-up plan, June 2), no one seems to ask what is being caught up. Primary schools already have an overloaded curriculum; let them shed some of it. Do young children need to be competent in
Ken Dodd | ID cards | Typos | Boris Johnson | Birthday wishes
Ken Dodd at London airport in 1965 when his record Tears topped the charts. Photograph: Stroud/Getty Images
Ken Dodd at London airport in 1965 when his record Tears topped the charts. Photograph: Stroud/Getty Images
Letters
Sun 30 May 2021 11.40 EDT
Last modified on Sun 30 May 2021 12.54 EDT
Toby Wood is quite right to describe Bob Dylanâs Like a Rolling Stone as the song that changed the course of popular music in the 1960s (Letters, 28 May). It influenced a generation of musicians and is regularly voted the greatest song of all time. All the more remarkable, therefore, that it did not reach No 1 in the UK charts and was kept off the top spot in September 1965 by the equally revolutionary Tears by Ken Dodd.
Bob Dylan songs | History and geography | Obituary pages | Pub signs
Robin Milner-Gulland is concerned that history and geography courses have been dropped at London South Bank University. Photograph: Jorg Greuel/Getty Images
Robin Milner-Gulland is concerned that history and geography courses have been dropped at London South Bank University. Photograph: Jorg Greuel/Getty Images
Letters
Fri 28 May 2021 11.07 EDT
Last modified on Fri 28 May 2021 11.38 EDT
None of the famous musicians who chose their favourite Bob Dylan songs (24 May) mentioned Like a Rolling Stone, the single song that jolted a generation from acoustic cosiness into electric edginess. The track’s opening drumbeat still sends shivers down my spine 56 years later.
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