At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the ...

A special school in Devon is petitioning the government to make phonics testing inclusive for children who have speech and ...

The most recent assessment of American students' reading skills suggests too many kids are struggling. And as a story in the ...

The new curriculum is grounded in research on how kids best learn to read. But it will take teachers time to learn which ...

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

A new study suggests children taught to read using phonics techniques can achieve a reading age up to two years above their expected level. Results from the study conducted by educational psychologist ...

Over the past 20 years, average reading performance has been stagnant for Year 5 students with fewer high-achieving readers ...

"If we're going to move the needle, we'll have to do something differently," the district's top curriculum and instruction ...

Florida state lawmakers began mandating science-based literacy education in the early 2000s. It improved reading proficiency among early grades and cemented Florida as a leader in early literacy ...

The Education Policy Institute said it found no evidence children's reading improved as a result of the 2012 ... year were adapted from an Australian version of the English phonics check. "This check ...

To measure students’ progress, educators most commonly used classroom-based assessments or anecdotal evidence: 46 percent of ...