Obtaining a C-grade in GCSE English is a crucial benchmark required for pupils wanting to continue their studies at A-level or further education college.
Clarke, who works as a poet, playwright, editor, creative writing tutor and translator is well known in schools across the UK as a set-text poet for GCSE and A-level English.
The introduction of the English Baccalaureate - which will be awarded to pupils gaining good GCSE passes in maths, English, two science subjects, a language and history or geography - would increase the uptake of history, he added.
Its report says teachers in some of England's secondary schools were guilty of "significantly" over-marking pupils' GCSE English work this summer in order to boost results.
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But Mr Gove has also announced that from autumn 2015, teaching will begin for "new" re-vamped GCSE courses in English, maths, the sciences, history and geography.
In exam regulator Ofqual's final report on the issue, it was suggested that teachers in England were "significantly" over-marking pupils' GCSE English work this summer in order to boost results.
It points to Mr Andrews' recent intervention over this summer's GCSE English results when he ordered that they be re-graded.
In its pre-action letter, the alliance said pupils who took GCSE English in June had been treated with "conspicuous unfairness".
The GCSE English controversy was about changes to grade boundaries, rather than marking - but English was also the subject that drew the most requests for re-marking.
King Edward VI secondary school in Bury St Edmunds, where the AQA English exam is taken, said 53% of its pupils got the five GCSE A-C grades, compared to 64% last year.
With only about 60% of 16-year-olds currently achieving the government's benchmark of five good GCSE passes including English and maths, it is clear many young people might not have passed the EBCs, which were being presented as more demanding than the current exams.
Mr Lightman, leader of the Association of School and College Leaders, told MPs that he believed that the exam grades for pupils taking the English GCSE in the summer had been been forced downwards in an attempt to balance an "over-generous" marking in January - in a way that was unfair for individual students.
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