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Dr Mary Bousted · Greg Wallace · teaching phonics

Bousted? A busted flush!

June 18, 2012 John11 Comments

If you tuned in to the Radio 4 Today programme this morning, you would have heard Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, debating the relevance of phonics in teaching children to read with Greg Wallace, executive principal of the Best Start Federation of primary schools in Hackney. After being… Continue reading Bousted? A busted flush!

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