The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov.

"Sounding out" words is a phonics, rather than a whole-language, technique. Although the whole-language movement began in the early 1970s, the dispute about reading instruction goes back much further.