The state has approved Glen Cove’s elementary literacy curriculum for adhering to new standards, district officials announced at the Wednesday, Sept. 17, board of education meeting. Kristen Schaefer, ...

Inspired by a “student-centred” approach to learning — in line with the “constructivism” philosophy of education woven through her university course — she set about creating an aesthetically pleasing ...

Schools across the country have been shifting their reading strategies to incorporate knowledge and best practices they have learned from the science of reading. More than 30 states have written ...

Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can “decode” words – has been raised to 90%. This increase, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every grade 1 student in the state school system next year will have their reading ability tested through a new phonics screening check ...

More children are meeting the expected standard in the "phonics check" for six-year-olds in England, the government says. Some 74% passed the test in 2014, up from 58% in 2012, new data suggests.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Reactions to the report of the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy (Teaching Reading, published in December last year) have ...

Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust which funds the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy at UCL. She is a member of the Labour Party and the Universities and College Union. The ...