This article was originally published in EdSource. Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially retired and replaced with a ...

Statewide tests recorded 63 per cent of the nearly 14,000 students who took part met or exceeded the expected scores. This was an 11 percentage point increase on last year and 20 percentage points ...

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, ...

LNP leader Deb Frecklington has promised that students from 100 schools will participate in screening in Term 3 of next year if her party wins power. Phonics screening checks assess a child’s ability ...

Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics ...

South Carolina doesn’t get much authentically good news about public education. What passes for celebration-worthy is usually along the lines of "our test scores didn’t drop as much as the national ...

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