000293871 001__ 293871 000293871 005__ 20250213113252.0 000293871 037__ $$aBOOK 000293871 245__ $$a"Teaching to teach" literacy 000293871 260__ $$aLondon$$bLondon School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Economic Performance$$c2016 000293871 269__ $$a2016 000293871 300__ $$a38 p. 000293871 336__ $$aPapers and Reports 000293871 490__ $$aCEP discussion paper ; no. 1425 000293871 520__ $$aSignificant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains hugely controversial amongst educationalists and has seldom been studied by economists. Research evidence from part of Scotland prompted a national change in the policy guidance given to schools in England in the mid-2000s about how children are taught to read. We conceptualise this as a shock to the education production function that affects the technology of teaching. In particular, there was phasing in of intensive support to some schools across Local Authorities: teachers were trained to use a new phonics approach. We use this staggered introduction of intensive support to estimate the effect of the new ‘teaching technology’ on children’s educational attainment. We find there to be effects of the teaching technology (‘synthetic phonics’) at age 5 and 7. However, by the age of 11, other children have caught up and there are no average effects. There are long-term effects only for those children with a higher initial propensity to struggle with reading. 000293871 700__ $$aMachin, Stephen 000293871 700__ $$aMcNally, Sandra 000293871 700__ $$aViarengo, Martina 000293871 710__ $$aLondon School of Economic and Political Sciences. Centre for Economic Performance 000293871 8564_ $$92d7f8e66-85ac-438d-92ac-fc2b4c79da4e$$s871560$$uhttps://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/293871/files/dp_Viarengo_2016.pdf 000293871 8564_ $$9bcd36085-c83c-43bf-b95f-3213eda86398$$xpdfa$$s1871848$$uhttps://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/293871/files/dp_Viarengo_2016.pdf?subformat=pdfa 000293871 901__ $$uInternational Economics Department$$0319285 000293871 901__ $$uCentre for Finance and Development 000293871 909CO $$ooai:repository.graduateinstitute.ch:293871$$pGLOBAL_SET$$pIHEID:Explore 000293871 937__ $$aWP-2016-027 000293871 980__ $$aWP