It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

Teacher associations and ­experts have called for more thorough testing and the teacher shortage to be ­addressed in the wake of new phonics and numeracy checks rolling out from this term.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Marion Joseph died in 2022 and therefore cannot celebrate what at long last is happening in California to improve ...

Four decades after education reformer Marian Joseph pushed phonics in schools to change the way young readers learn, California embraces it.

Two Cuyahoga County schools are among those receiving part of a $46 million federal grant to implement the phonics-based Science of Reading approach mandated statewide.

As the results of the Year One Phonics Check are made available, this is how you can help your child if they score below the expected standard.