5. There is no single effective teaching strategy. We have to use them all. Diana Wolff, Rancho Palos Verdes.. To the editor: I am so happy that phonics will be a focus in California schools again ...

The explicit teaching of phonics has lifted student achievement and parents are happy with their children’s reading progress, the principal of a Perth-based public school says.

At the secondary school level, two new compulsory history strands have been added to the otherwise pared-back curriculum, with every student in year 10 expected to study a sub-strand on Australian ...

South Australia was the first state to introduce a phonics check, and the results were sobering. Last year, only 43 per cent of students reached the benchmark in reading. The figures reflect ...

When I became Victoria’s Education Minister 12 months ago, little did I know I’d be stepping into a half century-long policy debate about how we teach our kids the basics of reading.

In England, student performance is reported against a “threshold score” of 32 out of 40. For the past two years, 81% of year one students in the UK achieved this score.Only 15% of children in ...

YEAR 1 students at state schools will be required to undergo a compulsory phonic test after a trial revealed alarming results in tests designed to measure their grasp of simple letter combinations.