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 to 90%. This increase, ...

Beryl Exley is President of the Australian Literacy Educators' Association. The Coalition says, if re-elected, it will invest A$10.8 million for “a Year 1 voluntary phonics health check for parents ...

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 ...