Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

A TOTAL of 122,062 Year One pupils have not mastered basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills, says Fadhlina Sidek. The Education Minister said the figure represents 27.24% of 448,113 pupils ...

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The 79th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS)—“Comprehensive Annual Modular Survey, 2022–23,” conducted between July 2022 and June 2023—gathered additional information on individuals’ ability to ...

A friend of mine, a young mother, vented her frustration on Facebook. “In today’s day and age it’s not hard to spend a bit of time looking at the sources,” she wrote. That sounds plausible — until you ...