Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

A Reading Recovery teacher is seeing struggling readers progress like never before thanks to a stronger focus on phonics - but she’s having to keep her methods a secret from her employers. The teacher ...

Parents have long-since succumbed to their teens' fascination with video games, but is that who's really at the joystick these days? More and more, younger children are favouring the thrill of playing ...