Until Toyota fished that name out of Webster's and slapped it on a new experimental division, Scion was just an obscure word meaning "offspring." Since Pandora's time, youth has been drawn to things ...

Victorian students have achieved their strongest NAPLAN results ever, leading the nation and proving Victoria truly is the Education State. Deputy Premier and Minister for Education Ben Carroll today ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Kelly Jones took a snipe at journalists with this hit single - here's why he regretted it. Ouch. No wonder then, that when the time came for Stereophonics to make their third album, Kelly Jones was ...

After decades of failure, the tide is turning in the battle over how American children are taught to read. School districts had long invested in methods that encouraged students to “guess” unknown ...

We need to have a serious conversation about reading. If you already stopped reading this, it is probably too late. But you should know there is a troubling pattern taking root: Our children continue ...

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

With an unprecedented 11 freshmen picked in the 2008 NBA Draft, Antonio Williams breaks down how these talented players will impact their new NBA teams. Eric Gordon and Jerryd Bayless endured drama ...

Phonemic awareness is a key concept in early literacy development, a concept that never fails to spark passionate discussions among educators, researchers, and even parents. If you’ve found yourself ...

Only 12 per cent of Australian 15-year-olds are able to read at an advanced level with children from poor families 10 times more likely to have deficient reading ability compared to their richer peers ...

The Killers debuted in 2004 with a flawless album called Hot Fuss. It sounded like a group of kids who’d discovered their older siblings’ post-punk record collection. Like New Order’s “Blue Monday,” ...