Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

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Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called "systematic ...

Dominic Wyse currently receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust and The Welsh Government. Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an ...

Synthetic phonics, where children are taught to pronounce sounds in isolation before putting them together to form words, isn’t working for many struggling young readers, a study led by UCL has found.

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

Clarification: A previous version of this story had a different image. It has been updated for clarity. Walk into any kindergarten classroom this fall, and there’s a good chance students will be ...

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 ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.