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 ...

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 ...

What it’s like: Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read Classroom Edition includes 12 steps; each teaches rimes and letter sounds to help kids build words. Within each step, videos with catchy songs introduce ...

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 ...

Description: Hooked on Phonics is an Android app that’s from the same people behind well, Hooked on Phonics. The team that started back in the late-eighties now has excellent mobile apps for both ...

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 ...

The makers of the popular reading education program Hooked on Phonics were fined Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission for sharing private consumer information -- including information about ...

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 ...

Children cannot read because children do not read. Reading, like anything else, demands involvement and practice. One learns to read, but is hardly taught to do so. Children may have as many ...