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 phonics screening check. The check measures their ability to use synthetic ...

In the May budget, the federal government allocated money to buy England’s phonic screening test for six-year-olds in Year 1. The screening test, introduced in England in 2012, tests students at the ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government and non-government organisations to research in the areas of curriculum, refugee education, teacher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in EdSource. Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction ...

Less than half of five-year-olds passed new phonics tests after their first full year of schooling last year. Results published by the Education Ministry show 47 percent of the 4209 children who did ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense—they've even been described as "the reading wars." In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...