New research led by a team from Royal Holloway and the World Bank asserts that teaching methods should improve, after discovering that global literacy goals will not be met without major intervention.
One of Britain’s longest-serving education ministers, who introduced phonics nationally into the English school system, said the extensive decade-long reforms that rejected “progressivist ...
they have moved from leveled to decodable text—books written to give students practice with the letter-sound correspondences that they are learning in phonics lessons. But decodable books ...