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 ...

Senior Research Fellow, The Centre for Independent Studies; Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University Jennifer Buckingham and Kevin Wheldall ...

The phonic screening check was introduced in 2012, as part of the government's drive to improve reading standards in schools More children are meeting the expected standard in the "phonics check" for ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...

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 ...