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 ...

The current curriculum and assessment system is ‘outdated and unfit’, the leader of the largest education union in the UK has ...

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

The Education Ministry said the tests being trialled for introduction in New Zealand schools next year were adapted from an Australian version of the English phonics check. "This check has over 10 ...

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

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

If there was an instruction manual to spark a meteoric rise in reading comprehension, Kansans might look southeast to the ...

Structured phonics follows a specific sequence and ... long researchers believe it takes for standardized tests and their assessments to show the impact of a curriculum on student achievement.

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 ...

A hot-button topic in local education this year is Wisconsin Act 20, a newly enacted state law with intent to make certain ...