Education policy is riven by ideological debates, both in the UK and globally. Phonics versus “whole language” methods in the ...

While trainees are in practicum, it’s important for mentors to provide clear feedback, moral support, and practical ...

The biggest program discussed in legislative and local committee meetings was the Let Teachers Teach Program ... limiting ...

Lessons can differ based on each ... instruction,” structured literacy focuses instead on teaching the structure of language, using phonics, phonemic awareness, semantics, syllables, morphology ...

Literacy rates are tumbling as kids' attention spans dwindle. Families are scraping together funds to move schools or get tutors, driving a societal divide.

NZEI Te Riu Roa – which represents teachers in primary and area schools ... including workbooks, teacher guidance and lesson plans. At the time, Stanford said $100m had been spent on the programme ...

It required schools to shift away from “balanced literacy” curriculum to a phonics-based model known as ... the failure to ...

One group with the teacher doing directed fast-paced instruction on letters, sounds and combining them to read syllables, ...

On Monday, the Board of Regents took on reading, deciding that every school district must revert to teaching ... lessons on which combinations of letters make which sounds. Instead of phonics ...