The Guardian view on schools: the hardest questions for Lucy Powell are about priorities | Editorial - 安博体育APP
The education secretary is right that her job is not to ‘polish the status quo’. Next, she must decide what to change first
There is a good case to be made for the increased importance of speaking skills in our new age of machines. With the UK economy’s stronger-than-expected recent performance widely linked to AI investment, it is vital that people are equipped for the kinds of in-person, public-facing jobs that are least likely to be automated. A concerning decline in children’s language development, both in the UK and internationally, has been linked to high screen use. There is a grim irony in a situation where tech companies both compete with humans for contracts and undermine our ability to talk to one other.
The Guardian has previously backed efforts to more strongly embed speaking skills, or oracy, in British schools. In a speech on Thursday, Lucy Powell promised to give them equal status to reading and writing in English (education is devolved, so her main responsibility is for England, but there are parallel initiatives in the other nations). Yet with promised updates to the national curriculum postponed, and plans for special educational needs reform causing deep anxiety to families, schools and councils, the hardest questions for the education secretary are about priorities. Following negative feedback from schools, she has also asked Ofsted to look again at its new inspection framework.
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这只是致力于撰写和发展背景故事系列文章的第一部分。我很乐意在后续文章中与你分享其他一些技巧。别忘了评论你希望在其它文章中讨论的内容！
edward
你与年轻和有抱负的作家分享这些技巧真是太好了。即使他们可能不是在写小说，我相信从像你这样真正有技巧的作家那里学到新东西对他们也会非常有用。我很乐意听到一些关于作家如何在不删减章节的情况下发展情节的建议（我经常在年轻作家的书中看到这种情况）。无论如何，感谢你这篇文章，它非常有启发性！
nina
我完全同意你最后一点，但我也认为找到主要角色之间正确关系发展的方法会很棒。这真的会很有趣。