Why is this country in the middle of still another angry fight over how to teach reading in the schools? The issue should have been settled years ago when stacks of research showed conclusively that a ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, is shining a spotlight on early reading—the group announced on Wednesday that it will start releasing evaluations of foundational phonics skills programs.

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from state and federal funding bodies for projects investigating curriculum, teacher standards and the teaching of English ...

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The inquiry chairman, the much-missed Ken Rowe, who died in 2009, wrote in his inimitable style, ‘‘Higher education providers of education and those who provide ongoing professional development of ...

Re “Hooked on Phonics? We Should Lose This Addiction,” by Mary Lee Griffin, Commentary, Oct. 22: Structured reading programs have helped more students than they’ve hurt. In California, we went through ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Most parents are well aware of phonics - a tool which supposedly helps children with their literacy. It ...