We’ve been fiddling with phonics ever since, while more consequential societal factors burn brightly in the background. The “reading wars” have been around for longer than you might think.

Bill Lee (R) submitted a bill to his state’s legislature this year that would command all Tennessee school districts to rely on phonics for ... but reaching to background knowledge, vocabulary ...

Hooked on Phonics, of misleading ads. The company and the FTC announced an agreement to settle the complaint Friday. A befuddled FTC insisted Friday that it had nothing against either home ...

The new bill, AB 1121, would mandate the method of the "science of learning" which is a phonics-based teaching method. While teacher unions across the state have pushed back on similar bills ...

Victorian primary school teachers will be required to adopt a phonics-based reading approach ... She said the current ad-hoc approach to literacy education left oral language and reading skills ...

British schools minister Nick Gibb is urging Australia to embrace phonics as part of a national strategy to help children read. He is here to meet educators, teachers and politicians as the ...