Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2016
in the mid-2000s about how children are taught to read. We conceptualise this as a shock to the education production … 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 …