Happy birthday SMS: 15 today

Today marks the 15th anniversary since the first commercial short message service (SMS) text was sent. That first message, which read “Merry Christmas,” was sent by Neil Papworth, an engineer at Airwide Solutions, via the Vodafone network to a colleague at the mobile operator who was enjoying the festivities of a staff Christmas party. [From [...]

Literacy. How to read a report carefully!

Like all education authorities Highland takes literacy very seriously and we have our own Literacy Project and our literacy team work closely with schools to develop these skills in children. (These materials are freely available btw from the web site).So it was with interest that I read about the PIRLS Report. This study made a [...]