E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including ...

WASHINGTON — Back in the 1980s, when Mary Pat Donoghue completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, “Units of Study for Teaching Reading” was a popular new program that celebrated children ...

This week, children in key stage one across the country will have been completing the government's new phonics check for the first time. They will sit down with their teacher and read through a list ...

Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests. Six-year-olds have to read aloud 20 real words and 20 ...

SPONSORED FEATURE: Explore effective strategies to support reading for four-to five-year-olds as they return to nursery and school. Online games and animations are linked to CBeebies. The current ...

Pupils of some public schools in Ondo State have held their audience in awe as they displayed their knowledge of jolly phonics. Jolly phonics is a synthetic project powered by the Universal Basic ...

The interests of able readers are being threatened by an insistence primary school pupils are taught to read using phonics, an academic has said. The Department for Education wants English schools to ...