Links I liked…

Some new research I liked…

• How effective are early grade reading interventions? A review of the evidence (Graham & Kelly, 2018)
• Changing How Literacy Is Taught:Evidence on Synthetic Phonics (Machin et al, 2018)
• Enhancing Young Children’s Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya (Knauer et al 2019)
• Reading Failure in a Completely Transparent Orthography Representing a Morphologically Highly Complex Agglutinative Language: the Case of Turkish (Miller et al. 2019) (via Maxine Schaefer)
• The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning (Hickey & Hossain, 2019)
• The Legacy of Colonial Language Policies and their Impact on Student Learning: Evidence from Cameroon (Laitin, Ramachandran & Walter, 2019)

• The politics of quality reforms and the challenges for SDGs in education (Bruns et al., 2019)

• Ending Learning Poverty: What will it take? (World Bank 2019 report)
• New (depressing) analysis by Martin Gustafsson for UNESCO…TL:DR version: Even if all countries in the world improve as fast as the fastest improvers in PIRLS/TIMSS/SACMEQ/PISA we will only reach 97% global reading proficiency in 2100

If you’ve come across interesting articles please post them in the comments!