The government has made some bold claims for its school reading policies—including that early results have been ...

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

Currently, the National Cervical Screening Programme is the only national screening programme that is not free for all New Zealanders. This programme includes the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) self-test, ...

The government has announced a mandatory reading test for all children in year 8, which it says will help identify gaps early ...

New figures from the Department for Education show 77% of Year 1 pupils in Bedford met the required standard in the most ...

The reading skills of young Nottinghamshire children have declined slightly since last year, new figures show.

There’s little that’s more devastating than witnessing a child in middle or upper primary school who struggles to read.

The government will set a new “ambition” for 90 per cent of pupils to reach the expected standard in phonics, Bridget ...

The Education Secretary will set out the core tenets of the Government’s forthcoming Schools White Paper in a speech to a ...

Education Secretary confirms all pupils will sit a mandatory reading test at age 13 to drive up reading standards. A national focus on reading at the ...

The attainment gap for reading skills between boys and girls in Milton Keynes has increased, new figures show.

Besides, America recently ran a very large natural experiment in dropping money on schools that, in a word, failed. During ...