Many people in education circles are keen for the impending Gonski 2.0 report. But their eagerness was far outweighed by educators' fervour to see the results of South Australia's trial of the ...

YEAR 1 students at state schools will be required to undergo a compulsory phonic test after a trial revealed alarming results in tests designed to measure their grasp of simple letter combinations.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s federal Liberal-National government has unveiled a so-called expert panel tasked with imposing yet another standardised test, this time on Year 1 students. On January ...

Results from the annual check, released on Thursday, show that 52 per cent of public school children met the minimum standard, up from 43 per cent last year. Children from language backgrounds other ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia’s school curriculum has been stripped of more than 20 per cent of its content, in a revamp that gives greater emphasis to ...

British schools minister Nick Gibb is urging Australia to embrace phonics as part of a national strategy to help children read. He is here to meet educators, teachers and politicians as the Turnbull ...

Pamela Snow receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Anne Castles receives funding from the ARC and the NHMRC. Kevin Wheldall has previously received research funding from various ...