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 ...

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 ...

State lawmakers plan to require that all students be tested for dyslexia and other reading challenges, but the hurdles ahead point to a bigger problem with how California’s public schools teach ...

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, ...

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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