Interesting. I also found this 2012 article on this same Eton teacher in the Telegraph : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9630771/Why-pushy-parents-fail-to-make-the-grade-in-education.html This kind of 'slow education' surely depends a lot on the quality of the teacher. Secondary-school teacher...

One of the contributors to the Reading the Evidence book was Paul Gardner. He has recently (15 July 2019) published a blog on the Phonics Screening Check: https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=4213 Jennifer Buckingham has produced a response pointing out a number of inaccuracies in what Gardner has writte...

A new article by Kevin Wheldall and colleagues has appeared:

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/T5ut ... 9.1635500

This is relevant in view of the criticism of the Phonics Screening Check expressed in the Clark book and elsewhere.

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Good TV interview:

https://twitter.com/9newsmelb/status/10 ... 9044501504

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Warm congratulations to Ruth Miskin, who has been made a CBE in the New Year's Honours list.

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There are more articles from Margaret Clark: https://ukla.org/news/story/margaret-m-clark-obe-debates-the-phonics-screening-test-and-the-evidence-be?platform=hootsuite These come close in time to the publication of data showing a narrowing of the end-of-Key-Stage-2 performance gap between advantaged...

I said I'd give publication details for the article by Prof. Anne Castles and others which had been accepted by the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties. It has now been published, but most people will probably have to pay to access it in that form. Prof. Castles has kindly provided a link to...

Another great news story from Australia: https://www.smh.com.au/education/i-felt-terrible-why-parents-are-blamed-when-their-child-can-t-read-20181123-p50hyo.html It's heart-warming that an academic with the research credentials of Prof.Anne Castles gets involved with the nitty-gritty like this. Jenn...

That article has now been revised for a largely Australian readership and has been published on line in the Nomanis magazine - see p. 16: https://indd.adobe.com/view/8e45ae95-ed06-419b-b1bb-69c7c54a14b8 It's relevant for Australia, as attempts are also being made there to raise the profile of phonic...

The following was a recent article in the Australian publication The Conversation : https://theconversation.com/what-are-decodable-readers-and-do-they-work-106067?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton A response was signed by 96 people, including a few from the UK. Greg Ashman has given a link...

I'm adding these links here because of the Australian connection - I'll let them speak for themselves:

https://theconversation.com/what-are-de ... tterbutton

pamelasnow.blogspot.com

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An argument commonly used against the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check (e.g. in the recent survey conducted by Clark and Glazzard) is that good readers are disadvantaged because they are so used to reading for meaning that they read the non-words as real words. This argument is challenged by Prof. Ann...

In my earlier post on the Clark-Glazzard survey I didn’t mention the following comment from one respondent: ‘Our children who were reading for meaning would try to make sense of the nonsense word on the test and therefore failed the test’. This sort of complaint has been quite common, but I found no...

This has now appeared: https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1165809/focus-on-phonics-criticised-in-new-survey?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter If the Phonics Screening Check causes stress for children, surely the fault lies with the way that teachers are administering it rather tha...

These results have just been announced:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... gland-2018

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