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Media Mentions: 2 December 2023

Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM quoted in ‘Reading experts’ concern at WA Catholic schools mandating discredited Running Records assessments’ (online), and ‘Year 1 on Read Alert’ published in The West Australian on 2 December 2023.

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Media Mentions: 24 November 2023

Nicole McGrath, Deputy Head of Junior School, St Leonard’s College on Bunurong Country, Brighton East (Vic) writes on the school’s website about the decision to implement InitiaLit and the benefits for both staff and students.

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Media Mentions: 9 November 2023

Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM’s op-ed ‘Literacy inquiry may be the intervention the ACT needs to improve its grade’, was first published in The Canberra Times, 9 November 2023.

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Media Mentions: 23 October 2023

MultiLit’s Professor Kevin Wheldall AM, Dr Robyn Wheldall and Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM have joined respected reading experts as signatories to an open letter to Ministers of Education. The letter outlines why the next National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) must ensure all students learn to read and write proficiently.

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Media Mentions: 13 October 2023

Emeritus Professor Kevin Wheldall AM features in Education HQ, with an edited extract from a speech delivered upon receipt of the 2023 Eminent Researcher Award of the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties.

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Media Mentions: 31 August 2023

Dr Alison Madelaine provided expert commentary in Education HQ’s article, ‘Look, cover, say, write, fail’: expert urges schools to ditch rote spelling lists — published on Thursday 31 August, 2023.

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Media Mentions: 23 August 2023

Dr Jennifer Buckingham was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 23 August, in the article ‘After radical NAPLAN overhaul, one-third of students fail to meet new standards’.

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