{"id":274,"date":"2011-07-10T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/new-literacy-and-numeracy-strategy-must-address-shortcoming-in-education-system-sean-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-07-10T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T17:29:18","slug":"new-literacy-and-numeracy-strategy-must-address-shortcoming-in-education-system-sean-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/new-literacy-and-numeracy-strategy-must-address-shortcoming-in-education-system-sean-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"New literacy and numeracy strategy must address shortcoming in education system &#8211; Se\u00e1n Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">New literacy and numeracy strategy must address shortcoming in education system &#8211; Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">Speaking  after today\u2019s launch of the Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and  Life, the National Strategy to improve literacy and numeracy among  children and young people, Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education spokesperson Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">\u201cAny  initiative that is designed to improve the standard of numeracy and  literacy in our schools is to be welcomed but there is no quick fix  solution to this problem.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">\u201cWe  need to have a broad and balanced curriculum that addresses the needs  of children and recognises the diversity of learning abilities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">\u201cIf  we look at current school curriculum, the starting point must be the  right of children to obtain their full educational potential. The loss  of key services such as Special Needs Assistants and specialised  language support teachers is having a damaging impacting on the  standards of literacy and numeracy across this state.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">There  is something fundamentally wrong when children can spend years at  school yet still reach adulthood not being able to read or write.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-size: 10pt;\">A<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\">mbitious targets<span style=\"color: navy;\"><span style=\"color: navy;\"> on literacy and numeracy<\/span><\/span> can only be <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">achieved<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;\"> with meaningful reforms to the curriculum and a teacher\u2019s professional development must be carried out in a structured way<span style=\"color: navy;\"><span style=\"color: navy;\">.<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: navy;\"><span style=\"color: navy;\">T<\/span><\/span>his requires<span style=\"color: navy;\"><span style=\"color: navy;\"> extra<\/span><\/span> resources and funding.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New literacy and numeracy strategy must address shortcoming in education system &#8211; Se\u00e1n Crowe Speaking after today\u2019s launch of the Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life, the National Strategy to improve literacy and numeracy among children and young people, Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cAny initiative that is designed to improve the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}