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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Media Mentions: Wednesday 30 August
Dr Alison Madelaine was interviewed by Perth’s 6PR on NAPLAN spelling results and how spelling should be taught effectively in schools.
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.
Media Mentions: 30 August 2023
MultiLit Senior Researcher, Dr Alison Madelaine, was quoted in an article in the Herald Sun, ‘Spelling by rote is not right’ on Wednesday 30 August 2023.
Media Mentions: 29 August 2023
Dr Jennifer Buckingham was quoted in The Age, Tuesday 29 August, in the article ‘Phonics test called hopeless, a waste’.
Media Mentions: 29 August 2023
Dr Jennifer Buckingham was quoted in The Age, Tuesday 29 August, in the article ‘State’s $11m phonics test slammed by teachers’.
Media Mentions: 24 August 2023
Dr Jennifer Buckingham was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 24 August, in the article ‘Inside the Sydney school exceeding expectations in NAPLAN’.
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’.