At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the phonics screening check. The check measures their ability to use synthetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in ...

Pamela Snow receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Anne Castles receives funding from the ARC and the NHMRC. Kevin Wheldall has previously received research funding from various ...

Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust which funds the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy at UCL. She is a member of the Labour Party and the Universities and College Union. The ...