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 ...

Luke Murphy, MP for Basingstoke, has expressed support for the government's plan to introduce a compulsory reading test for 13-year-olds in Year 8.

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, ...

Manitoba’s poor literacy rate has prompted MLAs of all political stripes to unanimously endorse a private member’s bill to increase teacher monitoring and support for struggling readers.

Meet Ayesha Shaik, the UAE’s “First Phonics Teacher,” whose journey from classroom educator to literacy advocate is shaping ...

While the benefits of screening tests for cervical cancer, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer are widely accepted, screening for prostate cancer remains controversial to some. The main screening ...

A change is coming to Manitoba classrooms, as every young student from kindergarten through Grade 4 will soon participate in ...

This Government is facing the future boldly, taking our education system from narrow to broad. That means a curriculum rich ...

Stephen Gorard receives funding from Economic and Social Research Council, and Department for Education, to conduct work in this general area. All secondary-age school pupils in year eight (aged 12 ...

More school-age children meet the criteria for a learning disability, but not everyone in Manitoba is on board with the idea of universal screening in schools.

Louisiana K–3 students achieved a 50% reading proficiency rate on the fall 2025 literacy screener, a 3-point gain over last year. Third grade led gains with a 5-point increase, reflecting the state’s ...

A post on X has gone viral for saying that Project 2025 promoted removing children from single-parent households that claim Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The post has so ...