Stereophonics went from playing at the Northern Quarter's 200-capcity Road House nightclub in the 90s to headlining the Co-op ...

SLADE guitarist Dave Hill has struck up an unlikely friendship with Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey. The Seventies and ...

They know this track, which Kelly Jones wrote in 2003/4 after touring with David Bowie, elicits the screams of anthem hero status and gets everyone on their feet. It works brilliantly and is very much ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...

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 ...

If you were hoping for the pop madness of 2024 to slow down and start making sense: good luck, babe! Because there has never, ever, been a pop year like the hot-not-pretty mess that was 2024. Week to ...

In a packed first half of the year for the Korean entertainment industry, these are our expert's picks for 20 standout singles from 2024 so far. By Jeff Benjamin As K-pop acts continue to set new ...

Our picks of the best songs from the most packed first half of a year in recent memory. Wow there are a lot of songs already this year, huh? A facile observation, of course — there are literally ...

In short: All Victorian state schools will use phonics to teach reading from 2025. The government says teachers will spend a minimum of 25 minutes a day on "explicit teaching" of phonics and phonemic ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...