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 ...

Chip Paucek?s entrepreneurial spirit grew, of all places, in his basement. About 15 years ago, Paucek co-founded Cerebellum Corp., a company that produced "Standard Deviants," a successful PBS ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many Journal letter writers — including current and former educators — insist it's time for schools to re-emphasize phonics when it comes to teaching reading as New Mexico faces a literacy crisis.