The education services company Educate Inc. has acquired the parent company of Hooked on Phonics, the controversial but popular literacy and math program advertised on television. The purchase ushers ...

Mary Lee Griffin is an assistant professor of education at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. How bad is this national reading crisis we keep hearing and reading about? Federal officials, citing the ...

WASHINGTON -- The owner of the "Hooked On Phonics" Web site settled allegations that it illegally sold personal information about its customers' children, the Federal Trade Commission said. Gateway ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City is changing the way it teaches reading, getting children hooked on phonics, after Schools Chancellor David Banks concluded public schools have been teaching ...

Institutions that train the next generation of educators need to do a better job teaching them to use the most scientifically proven methods of reading instruction. Almost two centuries ago, famed ...

Interview with Eric Mahmoud, Harvest Prep Charter School about teaching kids to read... Interview with Eric Mahmoud, Harvest Prep Charter School about teaching kids to read and write phonetically.

Michael Johnson, of the graphic design firm Johnson Banks, spends a lot of time traveling to Japan. Nonetheless, he still can’t read the language. It drives him crazy. So they’ve responded with a ...

WASHINGTON - What is the price when a firm breaks a promise to keep customers' personal information private? In the case of the company that sells Hooked on Phonics, $4,608 and some bad press. That is ...