A re-elected Malinauskas Labor Government's focus on lifting literacy and numeracy will see a second phonics check introduced for students in Year 2 ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government agencies to investigate curriculum, teacher standards, spelling and the orientation and education of ...

The Education Secretary will set an ambition for 90% of pupils to reach the expected standard in phonics by the end of year 1. Bridget Phillipson will set out the core tenets of the Government’s ...

The Alberta government plans to require all schools in the province to administer screening tests annually to Kindergarten-to ...

Lorraine Hammond is the President of Learning Difficulties Australia. Education Minister Simon Birmingham has announced that all Australian six-year-olds will soon be required to do a phonics test.

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 ...