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Just a few weeks into term, schools across the country are starting to see cracks appear. Students who arrived positive are disengaging. Pupils who were keen are showing signs of struggling. It’s the same every year, and it comes down to one key factor: one in four Year 7 pupils can’t read well enough to access the curriculum. Too many familiar initiatives show why morphology is essential. Tutor reading schemes launch with noble intent, but the weakest readers sit in silence.

How the new 100 hours can drive sharper teaching, not extend what failed before. Every August the same picture appears: large post-16...

I once heard a police officer say, “One more kid you keep in school is one less kid I’ll have in jail.”  It stuck with me, not because...

By Route Education “They just stare at the page.” It’s a line we hear often. Not because students lack ideas, but because the path...

Some students can read. They just don’t understand what they’ve read.  Others stumble on a word they’ve seen a hundred times. Not because...

Let’s settle the phonics debate: it works. Systematic synthetic phonics is one of the most rigorously evidenced interventions in...

Attendance isn’t just a statistic. It’s a message - and too often, it’s a cry for help. With persistent absence at a 10-year high, we...

At Route Education, we don’t just follow national priorities - we anticipate them. The Department for Education’s 2025 Areas of Research...