Teachers have secured a multimillion-dollar deal with the state government after initially being denied a say on how ...

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

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

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.

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music notation, or Morse code, or Braille, in which mastery of a set of symbols comes first.